August 4, 2026 • 49 mins
We talk today about how happy Lynne Walz must be with Brett Lindstrom moving closer to the governor's race, an interesting primary in Michigan today, a bit more review on the Baker-Ewing interview, guys in their 40s who wear their hats backwards, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That's a look at your roads.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
And Lucy Chapman, Yeah, there was a pretty good rumble
of thunder about ten minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
And oh that was me.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh sorry, I don't. We're going to call a doctor
and a meteorologist in Nebraska's morning news underway here on
this Tuesday, we do have confirmed rumbles of thunder across
the area. Lucy, you admit that one a couple of
minutes ago was not you? That was from the sky. Yes, yeah,
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that was definitely me, not you. Okay, because that.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Was the weirdest thunder I've ever heard it. Really, it
sounded like somebody threw something at the building.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yes, it did. I thought somebody did twice.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Okay, Well, now we have some research that we should
send Craig Evans out to the street to do. Does
someone just chuck something at the building like thunder? It was?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It was more the way it started and then it
was a regular thunder. Yeah, somebody just heaved a sack
of potatoes at the building.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Did so? Our building, made of paper mache, just had
a sack of potatoes thrown at it. And that's what
caused all of us to look to the sky and
wonder if that was thunt.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Either that or there's a sales meeting downstairs. People are
unhappy that they have to actually come to work in
the office, and so they slammed the door.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Always a possibility. We'll send Craig Evans out there and
see if zeus through a thunderbolt at our building. That's
Jim Rose, that's Lucy Chapman. Craig Evans is putting on
a suit of armor heading outside. I think yeah, in
casing Craig and metal and sending him out there in
the thunderstorm is probably the best course of action. I'm
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Scott Vorhees and this is News Radio eleven ten kfab
Brett Lenstrom, former state senator who then said, I'm gonna
run for Congress. I'm not gonna run for congress. People
don't want to vote for me. Yeah they do. I'm
gonna have some signatures gathered and I'm gonna run for governor.
He already whipped up those signatures. Had to have at
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least four thousand valid signatures incluting district, a minimum of
seven one hundred and fifty from each of the three
congressional districts. It's not a real high bar, but he
did whip this together pretty quickly. They filed five thou
seven hundred and thirty five petition signatures. You always go
well over because you figure some of them are people
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who are making up names or whatever, so he turned
him in. I presume they will be found to have
the requisite number of valid signatures, which would put Brett
Linstrom on the ballot as a nonpartisan candidate for governor
this coming November. And this paves the way for Governor
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Lynn Walls, the next governor of Nebraska.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well, the numbers are pretty clear. Scott elections are about
emotions and ideologies and issues, but they're also about numbers.
And here are the numbers. In twenty twenty two, Jim
Pillon got fifty nine percent of the vote, Carol Blow,
who probably never left her neighborhood, got thirty six percent,
and the libertarian candidate that year got four percent. If
Walls and I believe she will tax on another five
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or six points from Carol Blood, because actually Lynn Walls
is out there campaigning Carol Blood really didn't She gets
forty one percent minimum, maybe forty two, which means you're
gonna need forty two percent to win, because you don't
need a plurality in Nebraska, you don't have to get
fifty percent for a runoff or anything. So if the
weed guy gets two percent, which is possible, guy, Yeah,
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he gets two percent. That means that Bret Linstrom to
win this race would have to get forty two percent.
But by doing so, he would literally take seventy percent
of the people who voted for Jim Pillen in twenty
twenty two away from him.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Doubt short, feel short of.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
A scandal, short of a teenage girl, short of literally
getting caught robbing a BMO branch in Grand Island. I
don't see how seventy percent of Jim's voters are going
to disappear and line up behind breaks.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago
when Lyndstrom floated the idea of doing this that I
think he's banking on some scandal befollowing the governor Jim Pillen.
Should that not happen. Do you get the sense that
that Jim Pillen has lost seventy percent support among those
inclined to vote for a Republican. I mean, Brett Linstrom
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is not coming at this as a Republican. He's he's
left the Republican Party. He's filed nonpartisan. He'll be on
there as a non partisan candidate for governor. But Brett
Linstrom also isn't widely known west of Gretna, so he's
there's a lot of Nebraska west of Greta.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He won four counties back in the twenty twenty two
primary against Pillen and Charles Herbster in several other candidates,
including Teresa Thibodeaux. But I don't think he's going to
get forty two percent, but he could get sixteen. And
if he gets sixteen, I Lynn Walls do solemnly swear
that could very well have eleven ten KFAB certified transmission
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sports PREEF. Now here is Jim Rose. Okay Scott, good
morning everybody. Husker football is gearing up tomorrow. Fall camp begins.
Been a quiet offseason, Unlike previous years. Coaches and players
haven't been running their mouths tight. In Luke Lindenmeyer of
La Vista.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
This offseason, we've really been focused on our grit, our brotherhood,
and our relentless execution. Our team is super gritty, like
this is the grittiest team. Whatever you put in front
of us, We're going to attack it the brotherhood. We've
been having some outside events, hanging out together, building those
relationships that we're gonna need down the stretch. And then
that execution part come Fall Camp, come October, November, those
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late games in the fourth quarter, whether we're down or up,
it's going to come down to whichever team executes the best.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Okay, see how that goes. Spring practice was so early
this year Matt Ruhle wanted to be free to take
in the Masters. Seems like forever since that memorable day
in Las Vegas. KFB Husker Info strong man Sean Callahan
starts the Husker Buzz reports tomorrow. Husker volleyball, one of
the best in the world. Western Hemisphere, is going to
get a lot of tube time this year. A record
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fourteen regular season matches, almost half of them are set
for live TV. The United States Senate moves with the
speed of a sloth, but it might actually pass the
Protect College Sports Act this week. With a big ten
and SEC on board, it looks good to go. Trump
will sign it. Here are the highlights. Twenty one point
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three million each year in revenue share for all sports
for each school, twenty two point three million each year
to retain your athletes and keep them out of the
portal primarily footballmen's basketball. Five million each year just for
women's sports. These are hard caps. You can't cheat or
your breaking federal law. That's jail time. And there's another
(06:47):
little clause, the Lane Kiffin rule. It prohibits coaches from
leaving their schools voluntarily until the season is over. And
you cannot tamper with somebody else's guys, which is pretty
much what Lane Kiffin did to Ole Miss this past year.
And again, this is not an NCAA deal, This is
not country club rules, this is federal law. Baseball's trade
(07:10):
deadline came and went plenty of activity. The contenders loaded up.
The Phillies get three time batting Champ Luis arrives from
the Giants. The Royals unloaded salary out go starter Chris
Boubach to the Dodgers. A day after Lane, Thomas and
Bailey Falter were shipped off to the Braves. The Giants
set a message to outfielder Harrison Bader. He was in
a crash dur riding his scooter around San Francisco. He
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ran right into the back of a fire truck injured
his foot, he's out a month, witnesses say, and they
saw him get loaded before climbing onto the scooter, so
the team invoked the behavioral clause in his contract. They
won't pay him until he's off the DL and back.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
In the lineup.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
On the scoreboard yesterday afternoon and last night interly play
Cardinals thirteen to seven over the Yankees. San Francisco five
to one over the Rangers, Tampa Bay beat the Rockies,
League Philadelphia six, Washington three, Pirates for him, Milwaukee three,
Cubs ten to five over the Dodgers. Arizona beat San
Diego in one game. In the American League, Toronto three,
Houston one. Omaha opens up a series at Toledo. Tonight,
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Sports his news on Nebraska's News Weather in Traffic station news.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Radio eleven ten kfab. Let's dive back into the conversation Jim,
you and I are phrasing this as he's going to
just pull votes from Jim Pillin. There are a lot
of Democrat types who think that, hey, this is someone
who is not conservative trumpy enough for me to hate
his guts. Maybe he's more model the road or middle
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of the road moderate that I can get behind as
a Democrat. I don't know that Lynn Walls is a
DSA candidate. He's not like that. So, I mean, Lenstrom
might not just pull from Pillin, but it's very likely
that he'll pull any Democrat votes.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
He's a staunch conservative, was a staunch conservative when he
was in the Nebraska unicamer other than one thing, and
that was the death penalty. Otherwise he was a very
consistent and very reliable conservative vote for most things. Look,
here's the issue. And I like Brett a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I do.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
He's a nice guy. He's a good guy. He's a
hard working guy. His father and I've been friends for years. Dad,
former Nebraska football player Brett walked On, played under the caamahan.
I respect guys like that. I respect walk Ons a lot.
And he's not a complete political loser. He did win
two terms as a state senator.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
He was my state senator.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, he ran against Lee Terry in twenty twelve and
was not competitive in that primary. That was kind of
the first time we got to meet Brett. I don't
even remember. But the challenge is this Scott. It's a
little bit of the Mike McDonald syndrome. He's a man
without a country, right now politically, there is no base
for him other than people who don't like the status quo.
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But Democrats think this is our best chance since Ben
Nelson in nineteen ninety four, and so you're going to
see energy from Nebraska Democrats. Doesn't mean there's a whole
bunch of them, or that a bunch of Republicans have
switched over, but they have about a third of the states,
a little less than a third of the states of
registered voters. Republicans have a little bit more than a third,
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and then there are independents that are growing very rapidly.
An independent would have to be completely dissatisfied with either
Walls or Pillon to vote for Bread because they see
Brett as two point zero Pilling two point zero. He's
very conservative. He's a low tax, low regulation guy. He's
talking about bringing people together. Well, that's fine, except he
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believes we need to cut spending. That's the first thing
he said yesterday when he turned in the signatures. We
have to cut spending. Well, Democrats think we need to
raise taxes on rich people. We have a major fiscal
problem in this state that Pillan wants to by leveling
off the tax revenue stream, we have too money, too
much being spent on property taxes. So what I would
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offer to Brett is this, what's your issue? What's the
thing that people are going to go? Yeah, he's right
about that. He's my guy, and I don't think he's
got that. I have the same question you do, but
it comes from a different angle. And first of all,
Brett Linstrom will join us in the studio this Friday morning.
I think he's I think he's here just after seven
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thirty on Friday, looking forward to seeing my question. For
Brett Linstrom. I disagree with your assessment.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Is all. We got a rock rib staunch conservative, A
staunch Republican Conservative does not run against the sitting Republican
governor of Nebraska. So you asked the question, Brett, what's
your issue? I don't mean from politics, I mean who
hurts you? Why is he doing this against Republicans, the
governor of Nebraska, his supporters. Why is he doing this?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Well, it's only Brett know's and maybe those very close
to Brett. No, Pillin did come after him hard in
the last month before the twenty twenty two elections, an
election because he was gaining in the polls. People saw
him as the next generation of Republicans, and he had
a lot of support here in the Omaha metro, something
Pillin did not because Jim's not from here, and other
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than football number twenty nine, most people in Omaha and
Douglas and Starpi kind he didn't know who Jim Pillen was.
So he came after him hard, with some money given
to him by Pete Ricketts to nail Brett on some
negative ads in the last month before the twenty twenty
two primary. In politics, maybe people don't forget I've never
run for office. I've been attacked, but I've never been
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attacked like that, so maybe that's a factor. I mean,
Brett is a he's a unifying kind of guy. He
did a lot of bipartisan legislation in the unicamer but
the Republicans always had a very very healthy majority at
the time, so in other words, he was playing with
house money. I would just say that there's no way
he's gonna get seventy percent of Jim Pillen's electorate from
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four years ago unless there is a criminal act by
the governor, and there will be no criminal act between
now and November by this governor.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I would be surprised we'll talk with Brett linst From
about this a lot more. He will be in the
studio with this Friday morning, just after seven thirty. Don't
miss it. Thank you so much for being with us.
This is the place where we come to laugh, cry,
and get through the day together, sometimes all at the
same time. President Trump wasn't laughing when he said that
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the US Attorney for Washington DC, Judge Janine Piro, formerly
a Fox News now they're helping out the Trump administration.
President Trump said that Judge Janine choked and folded like
an umbrella when she moved to drop a felony vandalism charge.
This was against the former Olympian, a guy I don't know,
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did some sort of Olympian event in a canoe and
then he was found by the Park Service touching the
lightning the new lining around the reflecting pool on the
National Mall in Washington, DC. They sighted him and Judge
Janine dropped the charges against him. President Trump said, she choked,
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she folded like an umbrella. When all this now, Judge
Janine says there was no evidence that he did anything,
So we need evidence. And this wasn't the only one.
There were a few other vandalism charges that were dropped
against other people as well. And if you're looking to
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see who potentially damaged that new work on the lining
of the reflecting pool, maybe you shouldn't have driven the
White House motorcade across it this, which is what they did. Remember,
President Trump and the motorcade went out there. They drove
the whole motorcade across the reflecting pool lining. They put
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tire tracks on it, and then later people were looking
at it going it looks like there's some damage to
the lining on the bottom of the reflecting pool. They
look like tire tracks. So maybe that was a bad idea.
They're out there looking around and take a look at this.
This is beautiful. And so now it's a contractor work
and they're gonna I don't know, they're already doing repairs
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on it. I don't know. The President said that he
was not one hundred percent thrilled with the contractor, but
he said it's gonna beautiful, don't worry a few snags,
It's gonna be great. But do we need to throw
people in the Turkish prison for what they did to
destroy the lining? Now? I don't blame the president for
thinking that vandals wanted to destroy this. The President has
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talked NonStop about the reflecting pool, and for people who
hate his guts, if they can't get to him one
way or the other through either a golf course, a rally,
or the White House corresponding, then they can take a
knife to his reflecting pool and get him that way.
I don't blame him for thinking that, and I don't
know that it didn't happen, But the US attorney for
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DC said I didn't have any evidence, so we couldn't
pursue the charges.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
See President Trump ignores things like we don't have any evidence.
He just declares this is what happened, so that it
is a positive reflection on him and lays blame with
someone else. Jenny Piro is an attorney. She's the US attorney.
Her job is to process evidence before making a case.
People said I ain't got any People thought she was
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gonna get fired. She didn't get fired. Mister President, I
agree with you. People hate you, and I'm on your side,
but I ain't got any evidence at last report. If
I try to prosecute a case without evidence, I could
get disbarred.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
That's probably inconvenient. We also see here that Brett Linstrom
has named a lieutenant governor candidate, Mike Picard. This is
the director of Envy Volleyball Club. He's a Navy veteran,
a career Navy and said, I wanted to start a
volleyball team because my daughter likes volleyball. And so you
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got the Supernova's and then you've got Envy Volleyball Club. Well, yeah,
this isn't. This isn't why I guess one of the
professional volleyball I think this is club volleyball.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
For you, which is lucrative. Oh sure, yeah, you know
you can make a lot of money club in kids
club sports.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah. So Brett Linstrom has picked Mike Picard to be
his running mate in this race. And we've been talking
about it a little bit here throughout the morning. Here's
what you've had to say about it. Captain America has
emailed Scott at kfab dot com via the Zonker's custom
wo's inbox, and the Captain says Brett Linstrom will be
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able to take credit for giving America another commie, looney
leftist governor in Lynn Walls from Nebraska. In my opinion,
Brett is a very an extremely selfish and unpatriotic American.
I don't think that Brett Linstrom's gonna get Captain America's vote.
That's that email, Adam says personally, I think Pillin's in
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trouble because of the marijuana slow walk. The guy has
ticked off too many of those who voted for him.
When seventy percent of voters vote yes on an issue
and you not only fail to implement the issue tomorrow,
but you slow walk it, you don't deserve the office.
Good luck. That's from Adam, and we got this in
the talkback Mike. When listening to us on iHeartRadio, you
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can always send a message with your own voice.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I believe the deficit that the state is in around
one billion dollars is a criminal act.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Governor. How to resign? I think you get to a
one billion dollar deficit if you extrapolate an annual deficit
out several years, probably not too many years, but it's
a billion. It'll be a billion this year.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It's largely because of the property tax fund we have
dumped now dumping over a billion dollars a year to
try to offset the increase in property taxes. So you
can take that away in the state's budget is balanced.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, I got two hundred and eight million for the
next two year budget cycle for Nebraska's deficit, which is
a little short of a billion.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
No, I mean, but well it changes every quarter when
they update the tax forecast. But no, it's not yet
a criminal act to not manage finance as well at
the state government. But Nebraska is spending. Really used to
say we had three bills, you know, we had Medicaid
which was DHHS. We had the university in K through
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twelve education. Now we have four. We have those three
plus the billion dollars we put into the property tax
relief fund. Otherwise our property taxes would go up about
fifty five to sixty percent every year, and then you
have a revolution.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Well that's that's a lot of numbers.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The thing with Brett Scott is this only Brett really,
he truly knows what his motivation here is. Maybe somebody
very close to him. I suspect his family probably knows.
They're close knit family. Only he knows what his motivation
here is. But if anybody confuses his run for governor
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with an objective that he will win, then they just
are not dealing with practical reality as it relates to
politics in our state. This governor does have a lot
of support, especially in the third district. This governor has
the ag community behind him, and that's large in this state. Now,
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I don't know what his popularity is with the Omaha
business community. I suspect it's not great. I don't think
his popularity with the Chambers of Commerce may be as
popular as it was before. But he will not lose
seventy percent of his voters, which is what it's going
and they're going to have to come Brent for to win.
In order for Brett to win, Killin's going to have
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to lose seventy percent of the people who voted for
him in twenty twenty two. That leads to two questions
for you, Jim, You say Brettlinstrom can't win this, why run?
I don't know. As a matter of practical politics, this
would be the greatest upset in Nebraska electoral history and
one of the greatest upsets in American electoral history. To
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see a guy with less than one hundred days to
campaign against two people who have won a lot of
elections and won a lot of votes, and for whom
there is no criminal activity. You know, these kinds of
things will happen if you have a criminal on one
side of the ballot, somebody that's been indicted, somebody that's
under a major federal or state investigation that is not
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going there's no moral turpitude in the pillin camp. So
those are usually the openings for folks to roll in
and steal an election or get an election. Now, some
people say, Rosie, what about what happened back in nineteen
seventy seven when South Omaha grocer Alvays shocked the Omaha
business community and captured the mayor's seat away from Betty
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Abbott and Mike Albert Well. The question that day was
all right, but Alves had been a city councilman. Alves
had a block of votes in South Omaha, worked very hard,
did very well, and took advantage of low voter turnout. Now,
Al's not going to go down as one of the
more powerful statesmen in the history of Omaha politics, but
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that he was a rite in candidate. But he was.
He had been elected from that district in South Omaha
to the city council.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
It's a lot easier if you're right there in the city.
People know who you are. Brett Lindstrom is not well
known Wes Gretna. There's a lot of Nebraska wester Gretna
were well known in Lincoln. But yeah, real quick answer
on this one. So you we don't think Lindstrom could
probably win, but he can certainly erode a lot of
Jim Pillon's votes. Oh yeah, So how happy is Democratic
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candidate for Governor Lynn Walls? To thrilled?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Absolutely thrilled. If I'm Senator Walls and her campaign staff
and our good friend Jane cleb Our, favorite liberal Jane
clib this is your opening. Okay, this is when you
need to go to the national Democrat structure and get
money and you need to have a makeover for Senator Wall.
She needs to go out there and campaign like she's
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missed Nebraska. And if she does that, she has an opening.
I don't know if she will. I'm not on her
campaign staff, but this is her chance to say, all right,
I've never been a socialist. I don't agree with any
of the socialist leanings that we're hearing about like today
in primaries in Kansas and Pennsylvania, Michigan, Michigan. She has
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a chance. Now, she only needs about forty two percent
of the vote to win this race. So if I'm her,
I've got my run and shoes on, and i am
going be to the walls for the next ninety to
one hundred and twenty days.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
All right, Jim. This past Friday, Chris Bake welcomed onto
the program someone he refers to as Mayor Superman, John Ewing,
Mayor of Omaha, who sometimes poses for social media pictures
wearing a Superman costume, hence the nickname. So Chris had
him on and it was about a nineteen minute interview.
For the first fifteen or sixteen minutes they talked about
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some of the mayor's climate change initiatives, and then it
got into law enforcement. Chris asked him about whether or
not some of what Mayor Ewing, former Omaha Police officer,
wants to do in terms of bringing the Omaha Police
Department to full force, could be helped by the Douglas
County Sheriff's Office. I mean, after all, they have some
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power here in Douglas County, including Omaha, and yet John
Ewing had referred to the Douglas County Sheriff as using
his Sheriff's department as an occupying force. Now a lot
of politics involved in this one. Ewing is supporting Mark
Martinez and his bid to be the next Douglas County
Sheriff against Republican Aaron Hanson. So there's a lot of
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politics involved there. But Chris started off by asking you
Ing whether he wanted to walk that comment back about
referring to the County Sheriff's department as an occupying force.
Ewing said no, and then they kind of went back
and forth on that for a while. And here's where
things got kind of ugly.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Can you tell me what incident even brought on that
comment that they were an occupying force.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
No, I'm not going to keep I'm not going to
keep talking about this all day. I made my statement,
I told you why I made it. I think I'm
done with that question. We have a great chief, we
have a great police department. I believe we have the
finest law enforcement agency in the United States. We just
had a volunteer event where we recognized amazing people who
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are committed to helping our police department be great and
serving the people of this community. I prefer to focus
on that.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
But you didn't tell me why you said that though.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
That that's the thing if you don't if you don't
understand it, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Oh, I understand it. I understand you didn't tell me.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Okay, well, next question.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Thank you. We're focused on the positive. This is the
Year of the neighbor. We're trying to do everything we
can to build an even greater community.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
And I agree with you one hundred percent. It's just
you know, when you call a law enforcement agency that
has jurisdiction an occupying force. I never understood that.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
I didn't say hello, okay, next question, thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Oh, okay, next question. So my next question is do
you still see them as an occupying force?
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Next question?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Thank you for your time. If you don't have anything
you want to ask about UNIT or use Climate Action
Fund and what we're trying to do with that, have
a great day and a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Okay, Well, I guess that's it. All right, Well, thanks Mayor, Superman.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Visitor from another planet who came to Worth with powers
and abilities bar.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Beyond and Chris use that and that was the end
of that conversation.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Jim, You're unfortunate, that's that's not what the mayor should
be saying to the public, especially on a platform as
powerful as this one. All you need to say is, yeah,
you know that was probably not the best choice of words.
You know, that was occupying force is not something that
the sheriff's department did in this community. They're working through
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some territorial issues with the police chief right now. I'll
leave it to those guys. I have great confidence in
both law enforcement agencies to keep the public safe. So
but as it relates to that particular line, I shouldn't
have set that Chris next. Then it's over. And now
what it is is a gigantic viral complaint. Now you
got the sheriff wondering, whoa what about this guy? It's
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all politics. He's a Democrat, Aaron Hanson's a Republican. What
else do you need to know? This is what has devaulved.
This is what gets I think, public safety in the
crosshairs of public confidence when you have important people throwing
sand at each other. In the sandbox. You have a
very important guy. He's the chief executive of this community
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and he is also the chief executive of law enforcement
agency in this community, in tandem with the chief up
against and that's what it is now, up against an
elected official who is responsible for protecting the county and
at last check, Omaha was in Douglas County.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Well, there's another way Ewing could say that without totally
backing off what he said. And you know, politicians aren't
usually real good at saying yeah, maybe I shouldn't have
said that, And from the president to Omaha's mayor, you're
probably not gonna get that in this day and age.
So what he could have said, and I'm not John
Ewing's speech writer, I don't work for the man, what
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he could have said was, yeah, we got a hard
nosed political campaign here. I would love to see a
leadership change for a Douglas County Sheriff's office so that
we can have better cooperation between the very important members
of the County Sheriff's Department and the Omaha Police Department.
Thank you very much for that question. That. Yeah, but
you also have the dynamic here where you've got a
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conservative talk radio host and they'd had a great conversation
for sixteen minutes and then it was then it started
moving in this direction and both of them kind of
got their you know, puffed up, they kind of puffed
up the ego a little bit. It devolved and Some
KFAB listeners heard that and thought Mayor Ewing was childish
and wrong. Some kfab listeners heard that thought Chris Baker
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was childish and wrong. I looked for your assessment at
Scott a KF.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
It could be, But you know what, Scott, I don't
think it's appropriate for any elected official to drive wedges
or draw lines in the sand. When it comes to
public safety. John Ewing should stay out of the race
for county sheriff. It's not his job, it's not his
area well, but as mayor of Omaha, he is involved.
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His number one priority, in my view, every day is
public safety. Anybody elected to office, their number one responsibility
is public safety. There is Jim Rose right there, and
this topic might come up again later this morning. Caitlin
Clark was asked about it the other day. This is
after her teammates Sophie Cunningham. She's the one who points
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at people, and she's the one who said I don't
think men belong in women's sports. And then suddenly everyone
starts protesting at games. Girls are getting cussed at by
owners of WNBA teams. It Scott and ugly. They talked
to Caitlyn Clark about it. Here's her non answer her
on the subject of men playing in women's sports.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
I think for us, like you know, it's not really
discussioning we really have in our locker room. I think
it's for leagues and the governing bodies to work with
their athletes to find solutions. But our focus is on
basketball and that's what we talk about and how we
can get wins. And obviously we didn't do that tonight.
So in to find an area to improve in that way.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Any you know, reaction to the just answered that's it,
advice some counsel and seek my Fifth Amendment right against
self incrimination. Yeah, well, Caitlin Clark is a competitor and
she just lost a basketball game. Probably the wrong time
to ask her about things outside the boundaries of basketball
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that I think she's frustrated by. I think she sees
that her team is distracted by all of this and
she's mad they didn't get a win the other day.
That's that's my take on Caitlin Clark. People are upset
that she didn't take a bigger stand against it. I don't.
I don't know why if she wanted to, she would.
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It's just not like she's not already getting her butt
kicked up one side of the court and down the
other from everyone she plays against. Maybe she's concerned that
she might lose some sponsorships if she takes a political stand.
There are a lot of people who say, look, if
you are an athlete and you get asked a political question,
the answer is I'm here to talk about basketball. Next question, thank.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
You, which is not an unwise way to approach life.
If you are in the business of trying to entertain
as many people as possible, you don't want to give
people a reason to ignore you, or not support you,
or not come to the games. This is again, and
this is the Rosie de Genozi. Today we're going to
take this up. I thought this issue was settled, but
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apparently it isn't because of what happened in the WNBA
over the weekend. And I don't know about the leadership
of that organization when I've seen some of the things
that I've seen this year. This is just the latest one.
But the allowance of the assaulting on Caitlin Clark by
the league, or at least not taking a definitive stand
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on it and meeting out punishment for it, to me,
is hard to believe. This is the reason they have
a television deal as rich as it is. This is
the reason they draw people to games that never before
would go to a w NBA game, And yet they
are driving her out of the country into a league
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where she's not mistreated so badly.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
If that happens, I mean, seems to have a pretty
good thing going right now. And occasionally she gets knocked down.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
She gets knocked down, and she gets she gets blasted
a couple of times, which you know, you just can't
do that in basketball without paying a price on the
floor and otherwise. So I don't really understand that organization.
I don't understand its structure. I don't understand its objectives.
The objective should be, we're going to promote women's basketball.
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We're going to create stars. No one cares, and we
want people to watch the stars. I'm sorry, no one cares. Well,
we're talking about the w sports. We're talking about the
w NBA because the trans issue thing has come up
because people are are UFC fighting Caitlin Clark on the floor,
and then last year guys were out there throwing Rubbert
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fallises on the court. No one has ever talked about like, Wow,
do you see that play the other night?
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Do you see that game? And did you see that
the last second shot? No one talk I'm gonna I'm
gonna push, No one goes to the game for that.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
No, they they have a strong following of those folks
who truly enjoy women's basketball. Now, it's not in comparison
to the maid to Major League Baseball or the NBA
or NHL or college sports. No, it does not have
that breadth. But it has grown dramatically in the last
ten years, and in particular the last five years because
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of Caitlin Clark. And there are fans that are passionate
and spot that see a return on their investment. What
I don't understand is why they would wade into these
political and social issues when they've got such a good
entertainment product that has found its niche. It's in major
markets where there are lots of people who can't afford
to go to the Major League Baseball games, who can't
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afford to go to May two NBA games, and they
want to see professional basketball in Minnesota or Phoenix or
Chicago or wherever. So why they would take their revenue
stream and throw it up in the air and hope
it lands softly. By wading into political and social issues
is beyond me, but clearly they feel entitled to do
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so because now they have a larger platform. Would we
be talking about them if not for all of those things?
Very good point, Thank you, Wow, thank you. Someone write
that one day. Hey, come on, I give credit when
credits to just not very often.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I saw this yesterday and a question here for the
Esteem panel. What do we think about guys in their
forties driving around in their cars by themselves with their
hats backward? Is this something that they could be pulled
over for? Would this be one of those primary offenses
where police could pull them over and write them a
ticket for it? All right?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Fashion ticket?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Buying something else?
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Well, if if we'd won that Las Vegas ball with
Matt Rule doing it, it would have been a fashion choice.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
It's no, I'm not saying I'm against the backwards cap by.
I think that there's a potential time and place for
such a thing. I'm just saying there's a guy just
driving around by himself, he's in his forties, his hat
is backwards. It seems like a jailable offense.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Maybe he's just depressed. I think we're asked we need
to leave jails free for real criminals. I think in
this case, just let societal pressure affect his behavior. We
don't need to lock anybody up.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Well, we've got a couple of teenagers here who were
accused of kidnapping two young boys. Greig Evans been reporting
on this today and yesterday Judge Hendrix in Douglas County
dismissed charges against a nineteen year old and an eighteen
year old kidnapping, child abuse, and use of a firearm
to commit a felony. And this was news to the
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mother of the two boys who were allegedly kidnapped. Something
happened here. The mom talked with First Alert six News
said I got a call today at two o'clock saying
the judge had dismissed the charges. And then she says
she was critical the judge's decision. Quote, these as kids
we are talking about. It was guns involved, It was
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more than one crime committed here for the judge to
not take it serious. I got a problem with that unquote.
I imagine she does. This is her kids, age nine
to ten. Omaha police say these two boys were abducted
near fortieth and Grand This happened just over a month ago.
Officers pulled over the car. They said they found multiple
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firearms as well as the two children. Neither kid was injured.
And these these teenagers say, oh no, they were just
hanging out with them.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Teenagers hanging out with nine and ten year olds. Uh no,
were they? I mean, were these kids like tied up
or gagged? I mean, were they just sitting in the
back seat? Do we know any I think they were
just sitting in the back seat. The mom said that
people associated with the teenagers who allegedly kidnapped her son,
her sons, people are are reaching out to her and
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threatening her, saying you're.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Lying, These kids are lying. These are good kids. And
so Don Klein, Douglas County attorney, says, we were just informed.
We don't know what specific evidence. The judge says she
didn't have, but we plan on refiling the charges. So
this is not done.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Teenagers driving around with guns in the car, they're not
necessarily just good kids.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Well, I will let them handle all this. They are
of age, they're eighteen and nineteen years old. But I
don't I mean, how many good kids are driving around
with a whole bunch of guns in the back seat.
I would like to ask these teenagers for what reason
did you pick up the nine and the ten year
old boys that you do not know? What do you need?
What do you need to set this happened? That's a
(39:28):
dangerous question to start asking Jim, But he's got a
bunch of names for you here. Mine is Scott Vorhes,
that's Jim Rose, Lucy Chapman, Courtney Donahoe, Craig Evans, all
part of this. And a name I've heard a lot
recently is Abdul al sayed. That's out of Michigan. And
one of the more important names on this program is
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eleven ten kfab National correspondent Rory O'Neill, who joins US now. Rory,
who is abdul el sayed? Why is everyone talking about
this guy?
Speaker 6 (39:58):
You know? He's a john who did public health policy
there in the state of Michigan, and today he's on
the ballot for the Democratic primary for the US Senate
seat there. He's squaring off against four term Congresswoman Hailey
Stevens now El sayed, is he's not technically a democratic socialist,
but his beliefs certainly fall in those lines. He's backed
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by Bernie Sanders and AOC, whereas Congresswoman Stevens, she's been
backed by Chuck Schumer. She used to work in the
Obama administration. So you've sort of got traditional Democrat versus
this much more left progressive wing of the party going
head to head in his contest. There really will tell
us where Democrats are in August or twenty six.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yeah, because this isn't some congressional district around city like
New York City or something. This is the entire state
of Michigan, which is purplely So I mean this guy,
El say ed. He says, no, no, I'm a capitalist.
I just think that we need to have a lot
of different safeguards and parameters on capitalism. Which the more
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he talks, the more it sounds like what we've seen
from democratic socialist candidates. Bernie Sanders seems to like this guy.
What else are we looking at across the political landscape.
We got some primaries across America today.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Yeah, we do. And just a couple of notes on
El sayed, he's also said some things that bring up
issues of anti semitism. Of all, those are some of
the accusations that have been thrown at him. And the
Democrats are worried because whoever wins this primary today is
going to face off against Congressman Mike Rodgers or former
Congressman Mike Rodgers there in Michigan, and the Democrats need
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to win Michigan if they have any chance of retaking
the US Senate. So they think that Stevens is the
better bet for the when you're looking at November. But
right now she's trailing in the polls. There are a
couple of other Michigan races to watch in the seventh district.
There's a divided Democratic establishment there in that congressional fight.
We've also got races in Kansas, Missouri, Virginia, and in
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Washington State.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Yeah, the socialists feel good about what's going on in
Missouri too. Missouri's one Corey Bush, a dreadful human being,
was bounced down a couple of years ago. She's a DSA.
She's trying to unseat an incumbent in that race. What
do you think?
Speaker 6 (42:18):
Yeah? Now, yeah, because, as you said, Bush is trying
to win back the seat that she lost two years
ago to Congressman Wesley Bell. So this is sort of
a revenge race that could be pretty or it has
been pretty spicy. Let's see who turns out for this one.
And that's the other factor in this. It's a Democratic primary.
You don't know who's going to show up and in
what numbers because it's really tough to poll on this. Look,
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it's the first Tuesday in August. A lot of families
have got stuff to do, family vacation, summer vacation. You know,
I got kids at home to deal with. People don't
necessarily set aside that time to vote today, and that's
why the polling, especially for a primary, is so so
off the time.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
What do you make rory of this? Our good friends
George Soros and his son, who have funded a lot
of campaigns in this country. He's a billionaire from Europe.
He's sitting this one out. He has so far given
zero money to the Democrat National Committee. They are actually
getting out raised by Republicans right now largely because of that.
(43:22):
Is he the only Democrat super donor who doesn't like
how these socialists even though he's won, these socialists are winning,
which could hamstring their chances of actually capturing the office.
Speaker 6 (43:35):
Here's my first of all, it's a great question, and
I'm going to counter it. With the second question, why
are people voting for these Democratic socialists? You know, because
we're seeing they have had some moderate successes. What I think,
they had twenty seven contests, They've won like seven of them,
they've lost eleven some are still to come. You know,
why is it voters are appealing? Why is it these
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candidates appeal to voters? I think is another big well.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
I think on social media.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
I think because the energy in that party is on
that side. I mean, just like anybody else it's a
midterm election, the energy is eh, and so the energy
is among the socialists. It's among the elite, the elite,
educated whites, high money whites who are out there pound
on the pavement talking about how we need to be socialists.
But they're the ones turning out.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
Yeah, I say that's true with the candidates. I just
don't know where that's coming from in the population that's
voting for them, right, I mean, but that's the way
they're turning out.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
It's been a conversation a point on this and a
lot of other programs. Rory will cut you loose this
morning to talk again soon. I appreciate your viewpoints this
morning right here. Thanks God, it's eleven ten KFAB National
correspondent Rory O'Neil here on Nebraska's Morning News. One of
the big issues people say that they don't feel secure
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in their jobs. The prices of everything's going up, and
they can't afford housing, they can't afford health care costs,
and all these things are going up and up and up,
and what they're able to make or what they're able
to do in terms of whatever jobs they can cobble
together isn't keeping pace with being able to afford those things.
They feel like they're losing that American dream. So let's
(45:13):
just scrap the entire American dream and go with democratic socialism.
That's why people are voting for these candidates.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
And maybe we need to burn the village to save it.
In this way, Scott, there is no exposure to the
current gen z gen Y or millennial generation to the
Soviet Union, the old Soviet Union. It collapsed before they
were born. So they don't know what socialism looks like.
They don't know what communism looks like. All they know
(45:43):
is what they were taught by their liberal teachers in
middle school or high school or college. They've never experienced it.
They've never seen it. Those who immigrated from those countries
or who defected from those countries to this one don't
talk about it anymore because they're naturalized citizens. Part of
it it is the education gap. Oh it sounds so good. Yeah,
it's never worked. It won't work. You see enough examples today.
(46:08):
If you're paying attention that. If you really believe in
democrat socialism, which is very close to pure communism, just
look at what they want to do and compare that
to communism. It's very, very similar. It's because the younger
generation that believes this don't have any idea what this
looks like. No, and they haven't lived through the Cold
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War do They haven't thought it through. Let's just get
all the rich people to pay to feed all the
people who don't have that money, okay and don't want
to work. How much does that cost? And at what
point do we run out of that money?
Speaker 2 (46:41):
And then what That's what they don't follow through. They
think there's an endless supply of someone else's money, and
I got news for you, there isn't.
Speaker 3 (46:52):
Right well, and they don't spend you know, the rich
folks don't pay enough tax forgetting the fact that Elon
Musk paid twenty three bills million dollars in tax last year,
twenty three billion dollars in tax.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
We can afford to pay a little more.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Jeff Bezos paid twenty one billion in tax. Now do
they have a lot? Yeah, both of them made it
on their own.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
It'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
I guess. The I guess achievement is no longer welcome
in this country. But the idea that twenty three billion
in tax isn't enough.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Besides, Elon Musk is about to blow a hole in
the moon. Hear this story. Craig Evans reported it earlier
today here on Nebraska This Morning News. Great to have
you with us, by the way, on news radio eleven
ten kfab Jim Rose with the Rosie to GENOZI in
just a moment, Lucy Chapman and Craig there, I am
Scott Worhees. A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision
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course with the Moon. This is after launching a pair
of lunar landers more than a year ago. It will
impact the Moon at five thousand, four hundred miles per hour,
seven times the speed of sound, and it will unfold
in the wee hours of wind. When is this going
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to happen because if you're watching this with a telescope
tomorrow morning. Early tomorrow morning, there will be a smash
up on the Moon's near side, packing the equivalent energy
of three tons of T and T. There'll be an
impact flash lasting a split second, too dim to see
(48:28):
with the naked eye, but if you're watching on a telescope,
you could see that and the stream of ejected material
aka moon dust that will start stretching into space. As
far as is this going to be a problem, the
impact will not be a problem, according to this astrophysicist.
But in a future where there are long term bases
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on the Moon, we don't want to have some of
these things go flying into someone's neighborhood or golf course
up there on the Moon. I guess we'll have that.
Speaker 3 (49:00):
I prefer the Moon not be target practice for space
junk
That's a look at your roads.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
And Lucy Chapman, Yeah, there was a pretty good rumble
of thunder about ten minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
And oh that was me.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh sorry, I don't. We're going to call a doctor
and a meteorologist in Nebraska's morning news underway here on
this Tuesday, we do have confirmed rumbles of thunder across
the area. Lucy, you admit that one a couple of
minutes ago was not you? That was from the sky. Yes, yeah,
(00:26):
that was definitely me, not you. Okay, because that.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Was the weirdest thunder I've ever heard it. Really, it
sounded like somebody threw something at the building.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yes, it did. I thought somebody did twice.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Okay, Well, now we have some research that we should
send Craig Evans out to the street to do. Does
someone just chuck something at the building like thunder? It was?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It was more the way it started and then it
was a regular thunder. Yeah, somebody just heaved a sack
of potatoes at the building.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Did so? Our building, made of paper mache, just had
a sack of potatoes thrown at it. And that's what
caused all of us to look to the sky and
wonder if that was thunt.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Either that or there's a sales meeting downstairs. People are
unhappy that they have to actually come to work in
the office, and so they slammed the door.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Always a possibility. We'll send Craig Evans out there and
see if zeus through a thunderbolt at our building. That's
Jim Rose, that's Lucy Chapman. Craig Evans is putting on
a suit of armor heading outside. I think yeah, in
casing Craig and metal and sending him out there in
the thunderstorm is probably the best course of action. I'm
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Scott Vorhees and this is News Radio eleven ten kfab
Brett Lenstrom, former state senator who then said, I'm gonna
run for Congress. I'm not gonna run for congress. People
don't want to vote for me. Yeah they do. I'm
gonna have some signatures gathered and I'm gonna run for governor.
He already whipped up those signatures. Had to have at
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least four thousand valid signatures incluting district, a minimum of
seven one hundred and fifty from each of the three
congressional districts. It's not a real high bar, but he
did whip this together pretty quickly. They filed five thou
seven hundred and thirty five petition signatures. You always go
well over because you figure some of them are people
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who are making up names or whatever, so he turned
him in. I presume they will be found to have
the requisite number of valid signatures, which would put Brett
Linstrom on the ballot as a nonpartisan candidate for governor
this coming November. And this paves the way for Governor
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Lynn Walls, the next governor of Nebraska.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well, the numbers are pretty clear. Scott elections are about
emotions and ideologies and issues, but they're also about numbers.
And here are the numbers. In twenty twenty two, Jim
Pillon got fifty nine percent of the vote, Carol Blow,
who probably never left her neighborhood, got thirty six percent,
and the libertarian candidate that year got four percent. If
Walls and I believe she will tax on another five
(03:04):
or six points from Carol Blood, because actually Lynn Walls
is out there campaigning Carol Blood really didn't She gets
forty one percent minimum, maybe forty two, which means you're
gonna need forty two percent to win, because you don't
need a plurality in Nebraska, you don't have to get
fifty percent for a runoff or anything. So if the
weed guy gets two percent, which is possible, guy, Yeah,
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he gets two percent. That means that Bret Linstrom to
win this race would have to get forty two percent.
But by doing so, he would literally take seventy percent
of the people who voted for Jim Pillen in twenty
twenty two away from him.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Doubt short, feel short of.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
A scandal, short of a teenage girl, short of literally
getting caught robbing a BMO branch in Grand Island. I
don't see how seventy percent of Jim's voters are going
to disappear and line up behind breaks.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago
when Lyndstrom floated the idea of doing this that I
think he's banking on some scandal befollowing the governor Jim Pillen.
Should that not happen. Do you get the sense that
that Jim Pillen has lost seventy percent support among those
inclined to vote for a Republican. I mean, Brett Linstrom
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is not coming at this as a Republican. He's he's
left the Republican Party. He's filed nonpartisan. He'll be on
there as a non partisan candidate for governor. But Brett
Linstrom also isn't widely known west of Gretna, so he's
there's a lot of Nebraska west of Greta.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He won four counties back in the twenty twenty two
primary against Pillen and Charles Herbster in several other candidates,
including Teresa Thibodeaux. But I don't think he's going to
get forty two percent, but he could get sixteen. And
if he gets sixteen, I Lynn Walls do solemnly swear
that could very well have eleven ten KFAB certified transmission
(05:03):
sports PREEF. Now here is Jim Rose. Okay Scott, good
morning everybody. Husker football is gearing up tomorrow. Fall camp begins.
Been a quiet offseason, Unlike previous years. Coaches and players
haven't been running their mouths tight. In Luke Lindenmeyer of
La Vista.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
This offseason, we've really been focused on our grit, our brotherhood,
and our relentless execution. Our team is super gritty, like
this is the grittiest team. Whatever you put in front
of us, We're going to attack it the brotherhood. We've
been having some outside events, hanging out together, building those
relationships that we're gonna need down the stretch. And then
that execution part come Fall Camp, come October, November, those
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late games in the fourth quarter, whether we're down or up,
it's going to come down to whichever team executes the best.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Okay, see how that goes. Spring practice was so early
this year Matt Ruhle wanted to be free to take
in the Masters. Seems like forever since that memorable day
in Las Vegas. KFB Husker Info strong man Sean Callahan
starts the Husker Buzz reports tomorrow. Husker volleyball, one of
the best in the world. Western Hemisphere, is going to
get a lot of tube time this year. A record
(06:04):
fourteen regular season matches, almost half of them are set
for live TV. The United States Senate moves with the
speed of a sloth, but it might actually pass the
Protect College Sports Act this week. With a big ten
and SEC on board, it looks good to go. Trump
will sign it. Here are the highlights. Twenty one point
(06:24):
three million each year in revenue share for all sports
for each school, twenty two point three million each year
to retain your athletes and keep them out of the
portal primarily footballmen's basketball. Five million each year just for
women's sports. These are hard caps. You can't cheat or
your breaking federal law. That's jail time. And there's another
(06:47):
little clause, the Lane Kiffin rule. It prohibits coaches from
leaving their schools voluntarily until the season is over. And
you cannot tamper with somebody else's guys, which is pretty
much what Lane Kiffin did to Ole Miss this past year.
And again, this is not an NCAA deal, This is
not country club rules, this is federal law. Baseball's trade
(07:10):
deadline came and went plenty of activity. The contenders loaded up.
The Phillies get three time batting Champ Luis arrives from
the Giants. The Royals unloaded salary out go starter Chris
Boubach to the Dodgers. A day after Lane, Thomas and
Bailey Falter were shipped off to the Braves. The Giants
set a message to outfielder Harrison Bader. He was in
a crash dur riding his scooter around San Francisco. He
(07:34):
ran right into the back of a fire truck injured
his foot, he's out a month, witnesses say, and they
saw him get loaded before climbing onto the scooter, so
the team invoked the behavioral clause in his contract. They
won't pay him until he's off the DL and back.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
In the lineup.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
On the scoreboard yesterday afternoon and last night interly play
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to one over the Rangers, Tampa Bay beat the Rockies,
League Philadelphia six, Washington three, Pirates for him, Milwaukee three,
Cubs ten to five over the Dodgers. Arizona beat San
Diego in one game. In the American League, Toronto three,
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Speaker 2 (08:17):
Radio eleven ten kfab. Let's dive back into the conversation Jim,
you and I are phrasing this as he's going to
just pull votes from Jim Pillin. There are a lot
of Democrat types who think that, hey, this is someone
who is not conservative trumpy enough for me to hate
his guts. Maybe he's more model the road or middle
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of the road moderate that I can get behind as
a Democrat. I don't know that Lynn Walls is a
DSA candidate. He's not like that. So, I mean, Lenstrom
might not just pull from Pillin, but it's very likely
that he'll pull any Democrat votes.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
He's a staunch conservative, was a staunch conservative when he
was in the Nebraska unicamer other than one thing, and
that was the death penalty. Otherwise he was a very
consistent and very reliable conservative vote for most things. Look,
here's the issue. And I like Brett a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I do.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
He's a nice guy. He's a good guy. He's a
hard working guy. His father and I've been friends for years. Dad,
former Nebraska football player Brett walked On, played under the caamahan.
I respect guys like that. I respect walk Ons a lot.
And he's not a complete political loser. He did win
two terms as a state senator.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
He was my state senator.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, he ran against Lee Terry in twenty twelve and
was not competitive in that primary. That was kind of
the first time we got to meet Brett. I don't
even remember. But the challenge is this Scott. It's a
little bit of the Mike McDonald syndrome. He's a man
without a country, right now politically, there is no base
for him other than people who don't like the status quo.
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But Democrats think this is our best chance since Ben
Nelson in nineteen ninety four, and so you're going to
see energy from Nebraska Democrats. Doesn't mean there's a whole
bunch of them, or that a bunch of Republicans have
switched over, but they have about a third of the states,
a little less than a third of the states of
registered voters. Republicans have a little bit more than a third,
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and then there are independents that are growing very rapidly.
An independent would have to be completely dissatisfied with either
Walls or Pillon to vote for Bread because they see
Brett as two point zero Pilling two point zero. He's
very conservative. He's a low tax, low regulation guy. He's
talking about bringing people together. Well, that's fine, except he
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believes we need to cut spending. That's the first thing
he said yesterday when he turned in the signatures. We
have to cut spending. Well, Democrats think we need to
raise taxes on rich people. We have a major fiscal
problem in this state that Pillan wants to by leveling
off the tax revenue stream, we have too money, too
much being spent on property taxes. So what I would
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offer to Brett is this, what's your issue? What's the
thing that people are going to go? Yeah, he's right
about that. He's my guy, and I don't think he's
got that. I have the same question you do, but
it comes from a different angle. And first of all,
Brett Linstrom will join us in the studio this Friday morning.
I think he's I think he's here just after seven
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thirty on Friday, looking forward to seeing my question. For
Brett Linstrom. I disagree with your assessment.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Is all. We got a rock rib staunch conservative, A
staunch Republican Conservative does not run against the sitting Republican
governor of Nebraska. So you asked the question, Brett, what's
your issue? I don't mean from politics, I mean who
hurts you? Why is he doing this against Republicans, the
governor of Nebraska, his supporters. Why is he doing this?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Well, it's only Brett know's and maybe those very close
to Brett. No, Pillin did come after him hard in
the last month before the twenty twenty two elections, an
election because he was gaining in the polls. People saw
him as the next generation of Republicans, and he had
a lot of support here in the Omaha metro, something
Pillin did not because Jim's not from here, and other
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than football number twenty nine, most people in Omaha and
Douglas and Starpi kind he didn't know who Jim Pillen was.
So he came after him hard, with some money given
to him by Pete Ricketts to nail Brett on some
negative ads in the last month before the twenty twenty
two primary. In politics, maybe people don't forget I've never
run for office. I've been attacked, but I've never been
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attacked like that, so maybe that's a factor. I mean,
Brett is a he's a unifying kind of guy. He
did a lot of bipartisan legislation in the unicamer but
the Republicans always had a very very healthy majority at
the time, so in other words, he was playing with
house money. I would just say that there's no way
he's gonna get seventy percent of Jim Pillen's electorate from
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four years ago unless there is a criminal act by
the governor, and there will be no criminal act between
now and November by this governor.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I would be surprised we'll talk with Brett linst From
about this a lot more. He will be in the
studio with this Friday morning, just after seven thirty. Don't
miss it. Thank you so much for being with us.
This is the place where we come to laugh, cry,
and get through the day together, sometimes all at the
same time. President Trump wasn't laughing when he said that
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the US Attorney for Washington DC, Judge Janine Piro, formerly
a Fox News now they're helping out the Trump administration.
President Trump said that Judge Janine choked and folded like
an umbrella when she moved to drop a felony vandalism charge.
This was against the former Olympian, a guy I don't know,
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did some sort of Olympian event in a canoe and
then he was found by the Park Service touching the
lightning the new lining around the reflecting pool on the
National Mall in Washington, DC. They sighted him and Judge
Janine dropped the charges against him. President Trump said, she choked,
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she folded like an umbrella. When all this now, Judge
Janine says there was no evidence that he did anything,
So we need evidence. And this wasn't the only one.
There were a few other vandalism charges that were dropped
against other people as well. And if you're looking to
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see who potentially damaged that new work on the lining
of the reflecting pool, maybe you shouldn't have driven the
White House motorcade across it this, which is what they did. Remember,
President Trump and the motorcade went out there. They drove
the whole motorcade across the reflecting pool lining. They put
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tire tracks on it, and then later people were looking
at it going it looks like there's some damage to
the lining on the bottom of the reflecting pool. They
look like tire tracks. So maybe that was a bad idea.
They're out there looking around and take a look at this.
This is beautiful. And so now it's a contractor work
and they're gonna I don't know, they're already doing repairs
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on it. I don't know. The President said that he
was not one hundred percent thrilled with the contractor, but
he said it's gonna beautiful, don't worry a few snags,
It's gonna be great. But do we need to throw
people in the Turkish prison for what they did to
destroy the lining? Now? I don't blame the president for
thinking that vandals wanted to destroy this. The President has
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talked NonStop about the reflecting pool, and for people who
hate his guts, if they can't get to him one
way or the other through either a golf course, a rally,
or the White House corresponding, then they can take a
knife to his reflecting pool and get him that way.
I don't blame him for thinking that, and I don't
know that it didn't happen, But the US attorney for
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DC said I didn't have any evidence, so we couldn't
pursue the charges.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
See President Trump ignores things like we don't have any evidence.
He just declares this is what happened, so that it
is a positive reflection on him and lays blame with
someone else. Jenny Piro is an attorney. She's the US attorney.
Her job is to process evidence before making a case.
People said I ain't got any People thought she was
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gonna get fired. She didn't get fired. Mister President, I
agree with you. People hate you, and I'm on your side,
but I ain't got any evidence at last report. If
I try to prosecute a case without evidence, I could
get disbarred.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
That's probably inconvenient. We also see here that Brett Linstrom
has named a lieutenant governor candidate, Mike Picard. This is
the director of Envy Volleyball Club. He's a Navy veteran,
a career Navy and said, I wanted to start a
volleyball team because my daughter likes volleyball. And so you
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got the Supernova's and then you've got Envy Volleyball Club. Well, yeah,
this isn't. This isn't why I guess one of the
professional volleyball I think this is club volleyball.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
For you, which is lucrative. Oh sure, yeah, you know
you can make a lot of money club in kids
club sports.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah. So Brett Linstrom has picked Mike Picard to be
his running mate in this race. And we've been talking
about it a little bit here throughout the morning. Here's
what you've had to say about it. Captain America has
emailed Scott at kfab dot com via the Zonker's custom
wo's inbox, and the Captain says Brett Linstrom will be
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able to take credit for giving America another commie, looney
leftist governor in Lynn Walls from Nebraska. In my opinion,
Brett is a very an extremely selfish and unpatriotic American.
I don't think that Brett Linstrom's gonna get Captain America's vote.
That's that email, Adam says personally, I think Pillin's in
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trouble because of the marijuana slow walk. The guy has
ticked off too many of those who voted for him.
When seventy percent of voters vote yes on an issue
and you not only fail to implement the issue tomorrow,
but you slow walk it, you don't deserve the office.
Good luck. That's from Adam, and we got this in
the talkback Mike. When listening to us on iHeartRadio, you
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can always send a message with your own voice.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I believe the deficit that the state is in around
one billion dollars is a criminal act.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Governor. How to resign? I think you get to a
one billion dollar deficit if you extrapolate an annual deficit
out several years, probably not too many years, but it's
a billion. It'll be a billion this year.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It's largely because of the property tax fund we have
dumped now dumping over a billion dollars a year to
try to offset the increase in property taxes. So you
can take that away in the state's budget is balanced.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, I got two hundred and eight million for the
next two year budget cycle for Nebraska's deficit, which is
a little short of a billion.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
No, I mean, but well it changes every quarter when
they update the tax forecast. But no, it's not yet
a criminal act to not manage finance as well at
the state government. But Nebraska is spending. Really used to
say we had three bills, you know, we had Medicaid
which was DHHS. We had the university in K through
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twelve education. Now we have four. We have those three
plus the billion dollars we put into the property tax
relief fund. Otherwise our property taxes would go up about
fifty five to sixty percent every year, and then you
have a revolution.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Well that's that's a lot of numbers.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The thing with Brett Scott is this only Brett really,
he truly knows what his motivation here is. Maybe somebody
very close to him. I suspect his family probably knows.
They're close knit family. Only he knows what his motivation
here is. But if anybody confuses his run for governor
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with an objective that he will win, then they just
are not dealing with practical reality as it relates to
politics in our state. This governor does have a lot
of support, especially in the third district. This governor has
the ag community behind him, and that's large in this state. Now,
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I don't know what his popularity is with the Omaha
business community. I suspect it's not great. I don't think
his popularity with the Chambers of Commerce may be as
popular as it was before. But he will not lose
seventy percent of his voters, which is what it's going
and they're going to have to come Brent for to win.
In order for Brett to win, Killin's going to have
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to lose seventy percent of the people who voted for
him in twenty twenty two. That leads to two questions
for you, Jim, You say Brettlinstrom can't win this, why run?
I don't know. As a matter of practical politics, this
would be the greatest upset in Nebraska electoral history and
one of the greatest upsets in American electoral history. To
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see a guy with less than one hundred days to
campaign against two people who have won a lot of
elections and won a lot of votes, and for whom
there is no criminal activity. You know, these kinds of
things will happen if you have a criminal on one
side of the ballot, somebody that's been indicted, somebody that's
under a major federal or state investigation that is not
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going there's no moral turpitude in the pillin camp. So
those are usually the openings for folks to roll in
and steal an election or get an election. Now, some
people say, Rosie, what about what happened back in nineteen
seventy seven when South Omaha grocer Alvays shocked the Omaha
business community and captured the mayor's seat away from Betty
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Abbott and Mike Albert Well. The question that day was
all right, but Alves had been a city councilman. Alves
had a block of votes in South Omaha, worked very hard,
did very well, and took advantage of low voter turnout. Now,
Al's not going to go down as one of the
more powerful statesmen in the history of Omaha politics, but
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that he was a rite in candidate. But he was.
He had been elected from that district in South Omaha
to the city council.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
It's a lot easier if you're right there in the city.
People know who you are. Brett Lindstrom is not well
known Wes Gretna. There's a lot of Nebraska wester Gretna
were well known in Lincoln. But yeah, real quick answer
on this one. So you we don't think Lindstrom could
probably win, but he can certainly erode a lot of
Jim Pillon's votes. Oh yeah, So how happy is Democratic
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candidate for Governor Lynn Walls? To thrilled?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Absolutely thrilled. If I'm Senator Walls and her campaign staff
and our good friend Jane cleb Our, favorite liberal Jane
clib this is your opening. Okay, this is when you
need to go to the national Democrat structure and get
money and you need to have a makeover for Senator Wall.
She needs to go out there and campaign like she's
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missed Nebraska. And if she does that, she has an opening.
I don't know if she will. I'm not on her
campaign staff, but this is her chance to say, all right,
I've never been a socialist. I don't agree with any
of the socialist leanings that we're hearing about like today
in primaries in Kansas and Pennsylvania, Michigan, Michigan. She has
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a chance. Now, she only needs about forty two percent
of the vote to win this race. So if I'm her,
I've got my run and shoes on, and i am
going be to the walls for the next ninety to
one hundred and twenty days.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
All right, Jim. This past Friday, Chris Bake welcomed onto
the program someone he refers to as Mayor Superman, John Ewing,
Mayor of Omaha, who sometimes poses for social media pictures
wearing a Superman costume, hence the nickname. So Chris had
him on and it was about a nineteen minute interview.
For the first fifteen or sixteen minutes they talked about
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some of the mayor's climate change initiatives, and then it
got into law enforcement. Chris asked him about whether or
not some of what Mayor Ewing, former Omaha Police officer,
wants to do in terms of bringing the Omaha Police
Department to full force, could be helped by the Douglas
County Sheriff's Office. I mean, after all, they have some
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power here in Douglas County, including Omaha, and yet John
Ewing had referred to the Douglas County Sheriff as using
his Sheriff's department as an occupying force. Now a lot
of politics involved in this one. Ewing is supporting Mark
Martinez and his bid to be the next Douglas County
Sheriff against Republican Aaron Hanson. So there's a lot of
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politics involved there. But Chris started off by asking you
Ing whether he wanted to walk that comment back about
referring to the County Sheriff's department as an occupying force.
Ewing said no, and then they kind of went back
and forth on that for a while. And here's where
things got kind of ugly.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Can you tell me what incident even brought on that
comment that they were an occupying force.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
No, I'm not going to keep I'm not going to
keep talking about this all day. I made my statement,
I told you why I made it. I think I'm
done with that question. We have a great chief, we
have a great police department. I believe we have the
finest law enforcement agency in the United States. We just
had a volunteer event where we recognized amazing people who
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are committed to helping our police department be great and
serving the people of this community. I prefer to focus
on that.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
But you didn't tell me why you said that though.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
That that's the thing if you don't if you don't
understand it, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Oh, I understand it. I understand you didn't tell me.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Okay, well, next question.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Thank you. We're focused on the positive. This is the
Year of the neighbor. We're trying to do everything we
can to build an even greater community.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
And I agree with you one hundred percent. It's just
you know, when you call a law enforcement agency that
has jurisdiction an occupying force. I never understood that.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
I didn't say hello, okay, next question, thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Oh, okay, next question. So my next question is do
you still see them as an occupying force?
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Next question?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Thank you for your time. If you don't have anything
you want to ask about UNIT or use Climate Action
Fund and what we're trying to do with that, have
a great day and a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Okay, Well, I guess that's it. All right, Well, thanks Mayor, Superman.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Visitor from another planet who came to Worth with powers
and abilities bar.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Beyond and Chris use that and that was the end
of that conversation.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Jim, You're unfortunate, that's that's not what the mayor should
be saying to the public, especially on a platform as
powerful as this one. All you need to say is, yeah,
you know that was probably not the best choice of words.
You know, that was occupying force is not something that
the sheriff's department did in this community. They're working through
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some territorial issues with the police chief right now. I'll
leave it to those guys. I have great confidence in
both law enforcement agencies to keep the public safe. So
but as it relates to that particular line, I shouldn't
have set that Chris next. Then it's over. And now
what it is is a gigantic viral complaint. Now you
got the sheriff wondering, whoa what about this guy? It's
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all politics. He's a Democrat, Aaron Hanson's a Republican. What
else do you need to know? This is what has devaulved.
This is what gets I think, public safety in the
crosshairs of public confidence when you have important people throwing
sand at each other. In the sandbox. You have a
very important guy. He's the chief executive of this community
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and he is also the chief executive of law enforcement
agency in this community, in tandem with the chief up
against and that's what it is now, up against an
elected official who is responsible for protecting the county and
at last check, Omaha was in Douglas County.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Well, there's another way Ewing could say that without totally
backing off what he said. And you know, politicians aren't
usually real good at saying yeah, maybe I shouldn't have
said that, And from the president to Omaha's mayor, you're
probably not gonna get that in this day and age.
So what he could have said, and I'm not John
Ewing's speech writer, I don't work for the man, what
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he could have said was, yeah, we got a hard
nosed political campaign here. I would love to see a
leadership change for a Douglas County Sheriff's office so that
we can have better cooperation between the very important members
of the County Sheriff's Department and the Omaha Police Department.
Thank you very much for that question. That. Yeah, but
you also have the dynamic here where you've got a
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conservative talk radio host and they'd had a great conversation
for sixteen minutes and then it was then it started
moving in this direction and both of them kind of
got their you know, puffed up, they kind of puffed
up the ego a little bit. It devolved and Some
KFAB listeners heard that and thought Mayor Ewing was childish
and wrong. Some kfab listeners heard that thought Chris Baker
(29:57):
was childish and wrong. I looked for your assessment at
Scott a KF.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
It could be, But you know what, Scott, I don't
think it's appropriate for any elected official to drive wedges
or draw lines in the sand. When it comes to
public safety. John Ewing should stay out of the race
for county sheriff. It's not his job, it's not his
area well, but as mayor of Omaha, he is involved.
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His number one priority, in my view, every day is
public safety. Anybody elected to office, their number one responsibility
is public safety. There is Jim Rose right there, and
this topic might come up again later this morning. Caitlin
Clark was asked about it the other day. This is
after her teammates Sophie Cunningham. She's the one who points
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at people, and she's the one who said I don't
think men belong in women's sports. And then suddenly everyone
starts protesting at games. Girls are getting cussed at by
owners of WNBA teams. It Scott and ugly. They talked
to Caitlyn Clark about it. Here's her non answer her
on the subject of men playing in women's sports.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
I think for us, like you know, it's not really
discussioning we really have in our locker room. I think
it's for leagues and the governing bodies to work with
their athletes to find solutions. But our focus is on
basketball and that's what we talk about and how we
can get wins. And obviously we didn't do that tonight.
So in to find an area to improve in that way.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Any you know, reaction to the just answered that's it,
advice some counsel and seek my Fifth Amendment right against
self incrimination. Yeah, well, Caitlin Clark is a competitor and
she just lost a basketball game. Probably the wrong time
to ask her about things outside the boundaries of basketball
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that I think she's frustrated by. I think she sees
that her team is distracted by all of this and
she's mad they didn't get a win the other day.
That's that's my take on Caitlin Clark. People are upset
that she didn't take a bigger stand against it. I don't.
I don't know why if she wanted to, she would.
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It's just not like she's not already getting her butt
kicked up one side of the court and down the
other from everyone she plays against. Maybe she's concerned that
she might lose some sponsorships if she takes a political stand.
There are a lot of people who say, look, if
you are an athlete and you get asked a political question,
the answer is I'm here to talk about basketball. Next question, thank.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
You, which is not an unwise way to approach life.
If you are in the business of trying to entertain
as many people as possible, you don't want to give
people a reason to ignore you, or not support you,
or not come to the games. This is again, and
this is the Rosie de Genozi. Today we're going to
take this up. I thought this issue was settled, but
(32:47):
apparently it isn't because of what happened in the WNBA
over the weekend. And I don't know about the leadership
of that organization when I've seen some of the things
that I've seen this year. This is just the latest one.
But the allowance of the assaulting on Caitlin Clark by
the league, or at least not taking a definitive stand
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on it and meeting out punishment for it, to me,
is hard to believe. This is the reason they have
a television deal as rich as it is. This is
the reason they draw people to games that never before
would go to a w NBA game, And yet they
are driving her out of the country into a league
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where she's not mistreated so badly.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
If that happens, I mean, seems to have a pretty
good thing going right now. And occasionally she gets knocked down.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
She gets knocked down, and she gets she gets blasted
a couple of times, which you know, you just can't
do that in basketball without paying a price on the
floor and otherwise. So I don't really understand that organization.
I don't understand its structure. I don't understand its objectives.
The objective should be, we're going to promote women's basketball.
(34:00):
We're going to create stars. No one cares, and we
want people to watch the stars. I'm sorry, no one cares. Well,
we're talking about the w sports. We're talking about the
w NBA because the trans issue thing has come up
because people are are UFC fighting Caitlin Clark on the floor,
and then last year guys were out there throwing Rubbert
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fallises on the court. No one has ever talked about like, Wow,
do you see that play the other night?
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Do you see that game? And did you see that
the last second shot? No one talk I'm gonna I'm
gonna push, No one goes to the game for that.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
No, they they have a strong following of those folks
who truly enjoy women's basketball. Now, it's not in comparison
to the maid to Major League Baseball or the NBA
or NHL or college sports. No, it does not have
that breadth. But it has grown dramatically in the last
ten years, and in particular the last five years because
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of Caitlin Clark. And there are fans that are passionate
and spot that see a return on their investment. What
I don't understand is why they would wade into these
political and social issues when they've got such a good
entertainment product that has found its niche. It's in major
markets where there are lots of people who can't afford
to go to the Major League Baseball games, who can't
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afford to go to May two NBA games, and they
want to see professional basketball in Minnesota or Phoenix or
Chicago or wherever. So why they would take their revenue
stream and throw it up in the air and hope
it lands softly. By wading into political and social issues
is beyond me, but clearly they feel entitled to do
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so because now they have a larger platform. Would we
be talking about them if not for all of those things?
Very good point, Thank you, Wow, thank you. Someone write
that one day. Hey, come on, I give credit when
credits to just not very often.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I saw this yesterday and a question here for the
Esteem panel. What do we think about guys in their
forties driving around in their cars by themselves with their
hats backward? Is this something that they could be pulled
over for? Would this be one of those primary offenses
where police could pull them over and write them a
ticket for it? All right?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Fashion ticket?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Buying something else?
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Well, if if we'd won that Las Vegas ball with
Matt Rule doing it, it would have been a fashion choice.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
It's no, I'm not saying I'm against the backwards cap by.
I think that there's a potential time and place for
such a thing. I'm just saying there's a guy just
driving around by himself, he's in his forties, his hat
is backwards. It seems like a jailable offense.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Maybe he's just depressed. I think we're asked we need
to leave jails free for real criminals. I think in
this case, just let societal pressure affect his behavior. We
don't need to lock anybody up.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Well, we've got a couple of teenagers here who were
accused of kidnapping two young boys. Greig Evans been reporting
on this today and yesterday Judge Hendrix in Douglas County
dismissed charges against a nineteen year old and an eighteen
year old kidnapping, child abuse, and use of a firearm
to commit a felony. And this was news to the
(37:18):
mother of the two boys who were allegedly kidnapped. Something
happened here. The mom talked with First Alert six News
said I got a call today at two o'clock saying
the judge had dismissed the charges. And then she says
she was critical the judge's decision. Quote, these as kids
we are talking about. It was guns involved, It was
(37:40):
more than one crime committed here for the judge to
not take it serious. I got a problem with that unquote.
I imagine she does. This is her kids, age nine
to ten. Omaha police say these two boys were abducted
near fortieth and Grand This happened just over a month ago.
Officers pulled over the car. They said they found multiple
(38:03):
firearms as well as the two children. Neither kid was injured.
And these these teenagers say, oh no, they were just
hanging out with them.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Teenagers hanging out with nine and ten year olds. Uh no,
were they? I mean, were these kids like tied up
or gagged? I mean, were they just sitting in the
back seat? Do we know any I think they were
just sitting in the back seat. The mom said that
people associated with the teenagers who allegedly kidnapped her son,
her sons, people are are reaching out to her and
(38:37):
threatening her, saying you're.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Lying, These kids are lying. These are good kids. And
so Don Klein, Douglas County attorney, says, we were just informed.
We don't know what specific evidence. The judge says she
didn't have, but we plan on refiling the charges. So
this is not done.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Teenagers driving around with guns in the car, they're not
necessarily just good kids.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Well, I will let them handle all this. They are
of age, they're eighteen and nineteen years old. But I
don't I mean, how many good kids are driving around
with a whole bunch of guns in the back seat.
I would like to ask these teenagers for what reason
did you pick up the nine and the ten year
old boys that you do not know? What do you need?
What do you need to set this happened? That's a
(39:28):
dangerous question to start asking Jim, But he's got a
bunch of names for you here. Mine is Scott Vorhes,
that's Jim Rose, Lucy Chapman, Courtney Donahoe, Craig Evans, all
part of this. And a name I've heard a lot
recently is Abdul al sayed. That's out of Michigan. And
one of the more important names on this program is
(39:48):
eleven ten kfab National correspondent Rory O'Neill, who joins US now. Rory,
who is abdul el sayed? Why is everyone talking about
this guy?
Speaker 6 (39:58):
You know? He's a john who did public health policy
there in the state of Michigan, and today he's on
the ballot for the Democratic primary for the US Senate
seat there. He's squaring off against four term Congresswoman Hailey
Stevens now El sayed, is he's not technically a democratic socialist,
but his beliefs certainly fall in those lines. He's backed
(40:20):
by Bernie Sanders and AOC, whereas Congresswoman Stevens, she's been
backed by Chuck Schumer. She used to work in the
Obama administration. So you've sort of got traditional Democrat versus
this much more left progressive wing of the party going
head to head in his contest. There really will tell
us where Democrats are in August or twenty six.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yeah, because this isn't some congressional district around city like
New York City or something. This is the entire state
of Michigan, which is purplely So I mean this guy,
El say ed. He says, no, no, I'm a capitalist.
I just think that we need to have a lot
of different safeguards and parameters on capitalism. Which the more
(41:02):
he talks, the more it sounds like what we've seen
from democratic socialist candidates. Bernie Sanders seems to like this guy.
What else are we looking at across the political landscape.
We got some primaries across America today.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Yeah, we do. And just a couple of notes on
El sayed, he's also said some things that bring up
issues of anti semitism. Of all, those are some of
the accusations that have been thrown at him. And the
Democrats are worried because whoever wins this primary today is
going to face off against Congressman Mike Rodgers or former
Congressman Mike Rodgers there in Michigan, and the Democrats need
(41:37):
to win Michigan if they have any chance of retaking
the US Senate. So they think that Stevens is the
better bet for the when you're looking at November. But
right now she's trailing in the polls. There are a
couple of other Michigan races to watch in the seventh district.
There's a divided Democratic establishment there in that congressional fight.
We've also got races in Kansas, Missouri, Virginia, and in
(42:00):
Washington State.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Yeah, the socialists feel good about what's going on in
Missouri too. Missouri's one Corey Bush, a dreadful human being,
was bounced down a couple of years ago. She's a DSA.
She's trying to unseat an incumbent in that race. What
do you think?
Speaker 6 (42:18):
Yeah? Now, yeah, because, as you said, Bush is trying
to win back the seat that she lost two years
ago to Congressman Wesley Bell. So this is sort of
a revenge race that could be pretty or it has
been pretty spicy. Let's see who turns out for this one.
And that's the other factor in this. It's a Democratic primary.
You don't know who's going to show up and in
what numbers because it's really tough to poll on this. Look,
(42:42):
it's the first Tuesday in August. A lot of families
have got stuff to do, family vacation, summer vacation. You know,
I got kids at home to deal with. People don't
necessarily set aside that time to vote today, and that's
why the polling, especially for a primary, is so so
off the time.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
What do you make rory of this? Our good friends
George Soros and his son, who have funded a lot
of campaigns in this country. He's a billionaire from Europe.
He's sitting this one out. He has so far given
zero money to the Democrat National Committee. They are actually
getting out raised by Republicans right now largely because of that.
(43:22):
Is he the only Democrat super donor who doesn't like
how these socialists even though he's won, these socialists are winning,
which could hamstring their chances of actually capturing the office.
Speaker 6 (43:35):
Here's my first of all, it's a great question, and
I'm going to counter it. With the second question, why
are people voting for these Democratic socialists? You know, because
we're seeing they have had some moderate successes. What I think,
they had twenty seven contests, They've won like seven of them,
they've lost eleven some are still to come. You know,
why is it voters are appealing? Why is it these
(43:57):
candidates appeal to voters? I think is another big well.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
I think on social media.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
I think because the energy in that party is on
that side. I mean, just like anybody else it's a
midterm election, the energy is eh, and so the energy
is among the socialists. It's among the elite, the elite,
educated whites, high money whites who are out there pound
on the pavement talking about how we need to be socialists.
But they're the ones turning out.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
Yeah, I say that's true with the candidates. I just
don't know where that's coming from in the population that's
voting for them, right, I mean, but that's the way
they're turning out.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
It's been a conversation a point on this and a
lot of other programs. Rory will cut you loose this
morning to talk again soon. I appreciate your viewpoints this
morning right here. Thanks God, it's eleven ten KFAB National
correspondent Rory O'Neil here on Nebraska's Morning News. One of
the big issues people say that they don't feel secure
(44:52):
in their jobs. The prices of everything's going up, and
they can't afford housing, they can't afford health care costs,
and all these things are going up and up and up,
and what they're able to make or what they're able
to do in terms of whatever jobs they can cobble
together isn't keeping pace with being able to afford those things.
They feel like they're losing that American dream. So let's
(45:13):
just scrap the entire American dream and go with democratic socialism.
That's why people are voting for these candidates.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
And maybe we need to burn the village to save it.
In this way, Scott, there is no exposure to the
current gen z gen Y or millennial generation to the
Soviet Union, the old Soviet Union. It collapsed before they
were born. So they don't know what socialism looks like.
They don't know what communism looks like. All they know
(45:43):
is what they were taught by their liberal teachers in
middle school or high school or college. They've never experienced it.
They've never seen it. Those who immigrated from those countries
or who defected from those countries to this one don't
talk about it anymore because they're naturalized citizens. Part of
it it is the education gap. Oh it sounds so good. Yeah,
it's never worked. It won't work. You see enough examples today.
(46:08):
If you're paying attention that. If you really believe in
democrat socialism, which is very close to pure communism, just
look at what they want to do and compare that
to communism. It's very, very similar. It's because the younger
generation that believes this don't have any idea what this
looks like. No, and they haven't lived through the Cold
(46:29):
War do They haven't thought it through. Let's just get
all the rich people to pay to feed all the
people who don't have that money, okay and don't want
to work. How much does that cost? And at what
point do we run out of that money?
Speaker 2 (46:41):
And then what That's what they don't follow through. They
think there's an endless supply of someone else's money, and
I got news for you, there isn't.
Speaker 3 (46:52):
Right well, and they don't spend you know, the rich
folks don't pay enough tax forgetting the fact that Elon
Musk paid twenty three bills million dollars in tax last year,
twenty three billion dollars in tax.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
We can afford to pay a little more.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Jeff Bezos paid twenty one billion in tax. Now do
they have a lot? Yeah, both of them made it
on their own.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
It'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
I guess. The I guess achievement is no longer welcome
in this country. But the idea that twenty three billion
in tax isn't enough.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Besides, Elon Musk is about to blow a hole in
the moon. Hear this story. Craig Evans reported it earlier
today here on Nebraska This Morning News. Great to have
you with us, by the way, on news radio eleven
ten kfab Jim Rose with the Rosie to GENOZI in
just a moment, Lucy Chapman and Craig there, I am
Scott Worhees. A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision
(47:46):
course with the Moon. This is after launching a pair
of lunar landers more than a year ago. It will
impact the Moon at five thousand, four hundred miles per hour,
seven times the speed of sound, and it will unfold
in the wee hours of wind. When is this going
(48:08):
to happen because if you're watching this with a telescope
tomorrow morning. Early tomorrow morning, there will be a smash
up on the Moon's near side, packing the equivalent energy
of three tons of T and T. There'll be an
impact flash lasting a split second, too dim to see
(48:28):
with the naked eye, but if you're watching on a telescope,
you could see that and the stream of ejected material
aka moon dust that will start stretching into space. As
far as is this going to be a problem, the
impact will not be a problem, according to this astrophysicist.
But in a future where there are long term bases
(48:51):
on the Moon, we don't want to have some of
these things go flying into someone's neighborhood or golf course
up there on the Moon. I guess we'll have that.
Speaker 3 (49:00):
I prefer the Moon not be target practice for space
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