Cars in Yards / Drunk Public Officials / CB Reflections

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And we haven't even started off the program, and Lucy
has already mocked, derided, belittled and upset me this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
When does that ever end?

Speaker 1 (00:11):
You didn't care one bit, I said. I was raking
leaves yesterday, and now I've tweaked my back and Joe
Biden is moving a lot better than I am this morning.
I am moving like the Russia AI robot that took
a couple of steps and fell over. I'm all hunched over,
and Lucy's like, it serves you right, you got to

(00:33):
just mow those things up. So I'm not going to
mow up all my leaves. I rake up the worst
of them, and I mow up the rest. I'm not
one of those that needs to have a yard free
of every single leaf or leaf residue, but the big
fat ones before they get all wet and ugly and

(00:54):
engrossed and kill the grass. I gotta stop.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Talking about me like that.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
I gotta, I got, I've got to put those in
the bag. And every year I do this, and every
year most every year, my back the next day is like, dude,
come on, what do you what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I wasn't necessarily saying that I don't care about you.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
No, you you said to me, what did you say?
I said, I said, I have to get the worst
of the leaves, And you said, just mow them all up. Yeah,
And I said, well, I'm not going to mow them
all up. I have to get the worst of them.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
And then you, well, you said, you said, because they
were in a big pile and stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Now you said, you said, well, then blow her out.
Now you said, well you enjoy the back pain, then
enjoy enjoy the back pain, and quick crying about it.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
You're right, I did say that.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, So I.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Here, I walk in this building every day with back pain.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
No, you come in here every day with neck pain.
You got a pain in your neck. Over here, you
got a pain in your neck. Sitting right over here,
you gotta pain in the neck. Looking and talking at
you right now.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
It's not it really isn't that I don't care. It's
just that I don't care.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
My back hurt. But here's the thing, I don't know
if this is better or worse. It is right on
the edge of completely going out. And so now I'm
I don't know, I don't know what to do. I've
I've taken all the pills. Is that a good first
step is the.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Voscular It's not it's a bone, it's muscular.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, but it feels like a nerve, yeah, it's yeah.
It's one of those You ever get that feeling right
before your back goes out, It's like lightning strikes and
it just goes like you got electrocuted, and then you
can't Then you're just immobilized. I think the bottom of
my spine got hit by a taser.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I think the only thing you can do for that
is nothing.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
I've taken all the pills and I'm just I'm walking
and moving very gingerly, but it feels better the more
I walk around. Can I do that now? No, I'm
gonna sit here and do a radio show for the
next couple of hours. The microphone stand doesn't accommodate that.
I'd have to slightly bend over, and that's the worst
thing I can do, even though even though I do

(03:17):
that all the time for the company, I'm not gonna
do all right here in Omaha. We've got the Omaha
City Council meeting tomorrow to do a first reading. A
first reading. Haven't we talked about this over and over again?
This is Omaha, Southeast Omaha well Omaha Southeast District four

(03:40):
Representative Ron hug Ron give him a hug, says, it's
the number one complaint I hear from people in my district.
The number one complaint is people parking vans on front lawns,

(04:00):
cars and backyards, pickup trucks balanced with one wheel on
the road and the other on the sidewalk.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
In your neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
No, this is in Southeast Omaha. Okay, I live in
northwest Omaha.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I was going to call you out on that.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
La is the Ron hugg says, this is the number
one complaint. It's cars not parked where they're supposed to be.
And the story from k ETV says, you'll we went
a brief walk through South Omaha. It quickly became clear
that some cars are not parked where they're supposed to be.
You will find vans on front lawns, SUVs and backyards,

(04:41):
and even pickup trucks balanced with one wheel on the
road and the other on the sidewalk. That's just a guy,
you can't park. Is that going to be subject to
a two hundred and fifty dollars fine? Some guy got
a wheel on the curb. Well, it says, here's an issue.
It's the issue, so we'll know it's an issue that

(05:02):
hug says. He hears about daily quote. It's the number
one complaint that I have received since I have been
in office. And so he says, it's already against the law.
You can't park a car in your front yard. It's
already against the law, he says, But there's nothing that

(05:22):
there's no teeth to it. There's no fine or punishment
or anything. What it is is, let's say you've got
a car up on blocks in your front yard or whatever,
and the city will come out and say, hey, you
have to have a vehicle on a hard surface, so
you have here's your letter. You have ten days to

(05:45):
rectify the situation. So after nine and a half days,
you move the car on the street, and then you
move it back in the yard the next day, which
starts the process of your neighbor calling the city again,
the city taking their time to come out and take
a look at it and go, hey, we told you've
got ten days to move this, okay, And then nine

(06:06):
days later you move it on the street. You wait
a day, and then you move it back. These people
know what they're doing, So the question is then why
are they doing it? Are they doing it just to
tick off the neighbors? Should the neighbors be ticked off?
So you're the guy living across the street from you
parks his car in his yard and how is it

(06:27):
really his yard? Or do they have some rocks and
dirt carved out in part of the yard for them
to park a car? Okay, why do they do that?
I think these neighbors feel like the people are doing
this just to upset them. Now I got news for
you there, Wally. The world doesn't revolve around you. Take

(06:48):
a look at the situation and wonder why would someone
be doing this. Could it be they have no place
else to park? Just park it in their three car garage.
I didn't say this was in West oh This three
car garage? Why? How how meager in existence? Must that be?

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Pedestrian?

Speaker 1 (07:08):
I know three car that you you're lucky to have
one garage. And if you have one garage, that's probably
where all your stuff is. You can't park a car
in that if you've got two cars. Now you've got
an issue of But I need to leave for work
before you tomorrow and then you got to do the
dance of the cars, you know, in and out of

(07:28):
the driveway to let some person go in and out.
This here's how you rectify that situation. Don't have full
ownership of the car. So let's say you got a
man and a wife. You got your car, she's got
her car. So but now her car's parked behind yours
and you've got to leave. First you take the keys

(07:49):
to her car and then drive that car. If you
don't call it. If that's her car, that's my car,
it's fine. Just look at it like a guy and go, well,
I'm the master of my domain. I have two cars,
and I just take whichever car I feel like, Well,
whichever one is more easy to get out. That's how
you solve that problem. But let's say now you've got kids.

(08:10):
You got a couple of kids of driving age. They're
teenagers or they're in their twenties and thirties, and they
refuse to move out of mom and dad's house. Now
you've got a convoy, don't you. You could have another
two or three cars. Well, they can't all fit in
the driveway. And as far as parking them in the street,
some of these streets in southeast Omaha are narrow as
it is. You start parking cars on the curb along

(08:31):
both sections and you can't get a firetruck through there.
So what happens when your house blows up? Fire truck
can't get through there.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
That happens in West Omaha too. Some of the roads
are narrow, too narrow for three for two cars in
a fire truck.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
The only reason why a house in I thought you
meant houses in West Omaha blow up. Yeah, when we're
all parking, I have an e helicopter. It needs to
be it needs to be plugged in, and I've just
got it into the two twenty two, twenty one, whatever
it takes. And that, by the way, there's your eighties
movie reference for this segment of the radio program. Anyone, anyone,

(09:11):
come on, we're moving, we're doing it. It's Monday morning
and we're not slowing down. Miss Gil mister mom all right,
So Scotch, So I got my e helicopter plugged into
the regular outlet, and sometimes it causes the whole breaker
to blow. And this is why houses in west Omaha
blow up, Because we got our tesla's and our our

(09:31):
e lawn equipment and our e helicopters all plugged into
the same I've got one outlet with multiple power strips
all coming out of it, and I just plug them
all in there, and apparently OPPD says that's a problem.
I'm like, why don't you fix it? And then my
house blows up?

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Why don't you build a new electrical outlet? Star store?

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Why don't you? Why don't you build an SMR. I
learned at that acronym today on Koka, Right right, yeah,
why don't you fix it? If I want to plug
everything I want to, If I want to plug three
power strips into one outlet, that's my right as an American.
But back to Southeast Omaha, so you've got very narrow

(10:15):
roads and you've also got all your neighbors with the
same issue. So some people are like, all right, I'm
just going to alleviate the congestion on the street and
we'll park the car off the street. We'll just park
it here in the yard, or if you don't want
to look at it, then I'll drive it around. I
don't have a fence in my backyard, so I just

(10:36):
drive it around here, park in my backyard. What's the
big Delio and the neighbors then decide that the big
Delio is I think it's pretty ugly and gross and
shoddy to look at your vehicle parked in your yard.
Back to the story from k e TV News Watch seven,
they talk to a South Omaha boy named Mike in

(10:59):
this sob said, quote, if it's your yard, you own
the house, you own the property, then you should be
able to park on it if you want. Unquote. Oh,
now you're gonna bring America into this. I thought this
was America. If I want to park in my yard,
it's my yard. Why don't you mind if I want
to build a rocket launcher here in my yard? So

(11:24):
people say, like, well what if what about like a
noise ordinance. You can't just be you know, having your
garage band play in the yard at two o'clock in
the morning, and it wouldn't be a garage band, then
your yard band playing in the yard at two o'clock
in the morning and waking everyone up. Yeah, well that's
where that noise intrudes on your life. How is that

(11:44):
car running or not parked on the yard. How is
that intruding on your life? Other than just like I
don't like it all right, Okay, I'm sorry you don't
like it. Well, we gonna we're gonna start calling the cops.
We're gonna call the city to come. I'm out an
issue a fine from fifty up to two hundred and
fifty dollars for severe instances of non compliance just because

(12:08):
your neighbor doesn't like something. Now, I'm gonna say all
of that and say a lot of these people probably
need to mind their own business. But I'm also gonna say,
if my neighbor is just parking cars on the yard,
I'm embarrassed. You know, people come over and we're we're enjoying.
I live in West Omaha, so we enjoy a nice
day at the yacht club and then we go fox hunting,

(12:31):
and then we as I want you to come over
to my house for Port and Sherry, and they're both there,
and it's it's people I know, Port and Shaw.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
What did you call me?

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Now, Sherry, you're Shery in this instance. So I come
on over here for Port and Sherry, and they come
over here, and my neighbor has got a car parked
in the yard. And suddenly my good friend from the
yacht club bottom Tooth is like overy. Allright, allright, I
think it's pretty pretty awful this year neighbors car parked
in the yard here. Maybe you shouldn't have keys anymore

(13:04):
to the yacht club, you know, And and then that
that gets to be an issue. And I'm not saying
I like it, but you know what am I gonna do.
Let's go over there and punch them in the in
the throat.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Let's droll this down just a little bit. Okay, what
are we talking about a car parked on a lawn
or are we talking about the style of the old
World Series down at thirteenth and and uh and whatever?
Are we talking about that kind of parking on lawn grass?

(13:36):
We gotta I have to know what exactly we're talking about,
because if it's one car occasionally in a house here
or there, then yeah, this is this is dumb.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
A lot of people park cars up off the street
so they they use like a part of their yard
where they just put down some rocks and stuff like that.
This is a hard surface, and like is it though?
It seems like it's if it's your yard.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
If it's your yard and you have paved it or
end or put gravel down, you don't see that out
in the country. They just gravel whatever they want in
there on their property.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
You're nearest neighbor quarter mile away.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
So that's the thing. So there we go. It's it's
just a neighbor thing. It's the people that are upset
about this. But here's why neighbors might be upset about this.
You know what that's going to do to your property value.
If you've got houses up and down your street with
cars all over the place. I wouldn't like it either,

(14:37):
even if I'm not trying to sell it. I take
a lot of pride in my yard, in my in
both front and back, and I like the way it looks.
And you're just going to mess it all up.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
So you are on the city council, Council Member Chapman,
you've got to vote on this. This is all all
this is is saying findes for something, and that's already
against city ordinance. You can't park a vehicle or have
a vehicle live in someone's yard, and in first instance
it could be a fifty dollars fine. You keep doing it. Hey,

(15:12):
we can do this all day. We can get up
to a maximum of two hundred and fifty dollars per
car per instance of being a foul of the ordinance?
Do you vote yes on this?

Speaker 2 (15:24):
I have to say first, I am against big government.
I am against all these silly ordinances that constantly have
to be added here and there. However, if the ordinance
is there and everybody is scoff laws, they're just not
paying any attention to it at all. Ah, well, that's fine.
They're never going to find us in that case. If

(15:46):
you've got the ordinance, then yes, you need to find
a way to enforce it. I'm not saying the ordinance
is good. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. We need
to know how many cars we're talking about. But but
if it's already there, then yes, you need to either
get rid of it or enforce it.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Okay, So if you'd rather get rid of it, why
would you vote to have a fine associated with the
ordinance If you don't like the ordinance to begin with.
It seems like you want to vote no on this.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Because if there is an ordinance that went through the
process and went before the council and was voted on
and passed and put into place and nobody is enforcing it,
or are you saying there was not a fine.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
There's never been a fine attached to it.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
So this is a new ordinance.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
No, the ordinance has been there for years. There's just
no fine. There's now punishment for being the only thing there.
I mean, there is a punishment for being a violation
of the ordinance as it stands now. And that's that
ten day letter. You've got ten days to move it. Okay.
After ten days, you move it for one day and
then you move it back.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
What happens after ten days of you and if you
don't move.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
It, they'll tow your car and they'll charge you for it.
It'll be in the city impound. But which seem that
seems reasonable to me? I mean, if you can't move
the car, if you got just a vehicle, and then
then you got the other thing, like, okay, can you
drive the car off the yard? Or is it just
living there? Do you have an old beat up van

(17:16):
that basically a family of box car children could live
in you? Is that what you have going on in
your yard?

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Box car children?

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Didn't you ever read those books? Oh god, I know.
It just popped into my head. I always wanted to
be the box car children. I would read those I'd
read those books growing up, and I think this is
the way to live. I just live in a box car.
And then I didn't even think about it for years.
And we went to visit my wife's It was like

(17:49):
her grandparents on her father's side, old house. And the
house was really small town Kansas, one of those old
old towns where you got some houses been kept up
and looked great and other ones are falling down. Sadly
this cars parked on the front. Yeah, sadly, this house
is falling down. And there was a box car in
the backyard with a bunch of stuff in it. And

(18:10):
I suddenly hadn't even thought about in decades as like
are there children in there? Because I wanted to be
like this. This was a moment I've been waiting for.
I'm gonna hang out with all these box car children.
We're gonna learn how to fish and have adventures.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
There's something wrong with you.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
You tell me there is something wrong with you that
that's the first thought that you had, that you want
to go learn how to fish with books.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's what they did, They learned how to fish.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, but that's your first thought after thirty years yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Or so it just it like like ray, it just
popped in there? What? Ray? What just popped in there?
There's your eighties movie reference for this segment of the radio.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Program forty year Old Virgin.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah so close Ghostbusters Scott Byes News Radio eleven ten
kfab Patrick emails and says, yeah, I think Patrick picked
up on the the phrase I used a moment ago.
He says, if people have cars that are running or
not and they don't drive them, they could just donate
them to Sheepgate. Thank you, Patrick, and I'm sure I'll

(19:14):
have a chance later in the program to tell you
all about that wonderful organization myshepgate dot org. Linda says,
we have a similar issue in our hood. Oak Hill's
Highlands got to be over in the one hundred twentieth
and q Ish range. I know that's where oak Hill's

(19:37):
Country Club is played there on Saturday. Love that place anyway.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Aren't you glad you did? Mister? Back hurts?

Speaker 1 (19:47):
My back feels good when I golf, It hurts. It hurts.
It's the bending over and picking up leaves and doing
all the rest of the stuff. Yes, that's what Yeah,
it's the leaf So yeah, Oak Hills Highlands Is. That's
the neighborhood just west of like one hundred and twentieth
and Q. So we have a similar issue there. Our
covenants say no overnight parking on our narrow streets. Problems

(20:09):
can occur with Monday garbage trucks and emergency vehicles.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Plus it's ugly some nice Monday.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Some neighbors don't care about covenants. I don't think she's
saying the trash trucks are ugly. It's yeah, some of
these streets just aren't wide enough to accommodate cars parked
on both sides. And I remember being a kid and
my dad just made a comment because both the Millers

(20:35):
and the zoo Pans, who lived right across from each
other in our little circle, the kids were all teenagers
and so they had four cars there. Scott and Michelle
had their cars, and then Joe and Julie had their cars.
And so now we're all kind of parked in the
street here, and it's right in that funnel coming up
the circle where it was really narrow. And my dad said,

(20:57):
if they leave their cars parked out there like that,
if a fire truck had to come up to our house,
it would have trouble getting up here. And I said, well,
what would happen? And he said, well, the fire truck
would just have to smash through their cars to get
here to save our house. And I secretly always wanted
to set fire to my house just to watch the
fire truck smash up my friend's cars. I always thought

(21:20):
that'd be really fun. Like I would just I wouldn't
even have to set the fire. I'd just call in
a fake nine to one one call my house is
on fire, Oh lordy, it's burning. And then I just
wait and see that fire truck come barreling up the circle.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
What means are you on?

Speaker 1 (21:36):
I am? Bam? Well I never didn't. I just thought
about it, Scott, We've been talking about this council meeting
tomorrow will include district for Southeast Omaha Representative Ron Hugs.
Ron idea that if you're parking in your yard right now,

(21:57):
it is against city ordnance to park in the yard.
You're car has to be parked on a hard surface.
What if it's just a difficult service surface service, You've
got to have your car parked on a hard surface driveway,
maybe a concrete pad part of your yard. I don't know,
but okay. So let's say you got a car parked

(22:18):
in the yard and people are like, that's terrible. There's
grass gravel underneath that. That's awful. Okay, So you move
the car, You put down a paved surface off of
your driveway, and then you pull your car back on.
After that, you let the concrete. Said cars parked in
the exact same spot, but now there's concrete under, there's

(22:40):
pavement under and not grass. Are people like, well, good, there,
we solve that problem. What is the difference The car
is parked in the same spot. Anyway, If your car
is parked in the yard, it is against city ordinance
to leave it there. Right now, the city sends you
a letter. You got ten days to move your car,
and then people do the dance of the automobiles. After

(23:02):
nine days, they move it for a couple of days,
and they move it back. And then I hope I'm
not being stereotypical here when I say the very old
lady across the streets, hey, he's parked in their yard again.
And then the city's got to send someone out verify, Yeah,
you're parked in the yard again. Then they send you
the letter again. Your cars and violation, and then you

(23:22):
got ten days to move it, and then you dance
it around again, and you can do that forever. And
the people calling the city saying they're parked in their
yard and I don't like it. This is exclusively ninety
seven year old women, right who are making these calls? Yes?

Speaker 2 (23:41):
No, no.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Ninety six year old women. No women in their nineties,
either in age or mindset.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Okay, okay, I'll go with that.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
I'm not going to call the city. I'm gonna go
talk to my name.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
You don't know the number.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
I'm gonna go talk to my neighbor. And then I'll
realize I should have taken Spanish in high school, and
then I don't know. And just when you use the
the Google translator thing and you're trying to well, this
is Southeast Ama. Oh don't give me that. Look, there
are a lot of people speak Spanish in Southeast Omaha.
What is that a crime?

Speaker 2 (24:21):
No?

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Is that against Adney order? You have ten you have
ten days to learn English? No, except that notification with
be in English and they just look at it and go, okay,
So all right, everyone just calmed down. Right now, you've
got ten days to move the car. Ron hugg says,

(24:44):
if your car is parked illegally, we should issue fines.
Minimum fifty alright, No, sorry, I've been screwing that up.
Minimum twenty five dollars. He did have a minimum twenty five.
I don't know if that's the new one or the
old one. I think the old one is twenty five.
Now he wants it fifty anyway, minimum twenty five to

(25:09):
fifty dollars maximum two hundred and fifty dollars per car.
That could be very, very expensive for some families. And
then the counter argument, it's my yard, I'll do what
I want. Why don't you mind your own business? Which
is a pretty good argument. Here are the emails coming
in scotttkfab dot com and the Zonker's custom woods inbox.

(25:33):
Carl says Scott, as a forty plus year resident in
South Omaha and a longtime listener of kfab, I am
disappointed with your cavalier attitude of this problem. I haven't
had I have yet to come down on one side
of the other on this.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Actually mine knows it's a little more o.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Other than I think. What it is now is if
you leave it park there? The he can toe it
and they'll take it to the city impound. I think
then that's a lot more than two hundred and fifty
dollars to deal with getting that out. It's I think
that it's not enforced. I don't think anyone's doing it,
and maybe you just enforce what's already on the city books, right.
I don't know my cavalier attitude is about this. Maybe

(26:18):
I should read the rest of his email, disappointed with
your cavalier attitude of this problem. Lucy is correct, it's tacky,
it looks trashy and negatively affects property value. Good. Our
property taxes are too high, and that's because their valuations
go up and up. I think everyone should be parking
their cars in their yard. Oh that's perfect, all right,

(26:38):
this is it. You've got a couple of months to
figure out how to do this. Twenty twenty six, we
are all parking all of our cars in our yards.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
And then the driveways are free for roller.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Skating, and then they'll send out, they'll send out. I
don't know why Carl thinks I have a cavalier attitude
about anything. I don't know. I'll have to listen back
to the show and see if I can figure out
what he's talking about. Probably not. So we'll all park
our cars in our yard all next year, and then
the Douglas County Assessor will send out those drunk menuons
who just come up with some number. And when it happens,

(27:10):
when they just lunge a dart at a dartboard and
they're like, that's how much your property's worth. And you're like,
you're crazy. I'll sell it to you right now for
eighty five percent of it. You won't buy it. There's
no reason, there's no way my property is worth that much.
And they're like, well you can argue it, like I
am arguing it. Bring it. And so now you got
to go to the Board of Equalization. Well what's that,

(27:32):
I don't know. You write a letter and no one
knows what to do, and our property values go way up,
which means our property taxes go way up, which gives
our city leaders a chance to say, we didn't raise
your property taxes. Yeah, you don't have to. You got
your minions at the assessor's office out there jacking up
the value. But I bet the value go down if

(27:52):
we park all of our cars in our yard all
the time. That's it. Cars and Yards. The twenty twenty
six is the cars in Yard year.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
For at least ten days, yeah, or at.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Least maybe we don't need to go the full year.
But when did they send out the drunken minions from
the assessor's office to come out and go.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Oh, I think that they're loose?

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Is worth three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars, You're like,
you're kidding. I bought this last year for two sixty Well, congratulations,
it's count more value.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
I'm I'm the club.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
What's it his name? John Charlie in the Box. Sorry,
I'm doing Rootolph the Red Charlie in the Body wants
to play with Charlie in the Box a little early
on the Christmas TV show references, But I didn't realize
I was doing that voice all right, So whenever they
send them out, that's when we all parked cars and yards. Lucy,

(28:53):
I'm back to the email. Lucy is correct. It's tacking.
It looks trashy and negatively affects property values. I work
hard to keep my property in lawn looking nice. And
down the street is a lawn with ruts in the
front yard from cars parked in the yard. I think
you would feel different if this was happening next to you.
I support councilmen Hugs' efforts to address this issue. I

(29:16):
already said in Southeast Omaha, which is clear across the
world from where I live in Northwest Omaha, it doesn't
bother me if cars are parked in yards, But if
my neighbors across the street were doing it, yeah, it
would bother me. I already said that I feel, you know,
So it's definitely a it's a nim fee not in

(29:37):
my front yard problem as opposed to nimby not in
my backyard. So it's a nimfee issue. But if you're
gonna take the argument like I work hard to keep
my yard looking nice, and then the neighbors across the
street don't mow as frequently. They don't do anything about
the weeds in their yards. They don't weed whack and

(29:59):
get the that nice edge along the sidewalk that always
looks good, high and tight, nice edge on the sidewalk,
you know, And they won't clean up their leaves, they
just mow over them. And now you've got a bunch
of ground up leaves in lines on the yard. And
you're like that looks terrible, and Lucy's like, well, I
find you come over and clean them up then, because
that's what she does. You just mows over them, doesn't

(30:21):
clean them up. So if the argument is I work
hard to keep my yard looking nice, and then these
people next door across the street, they don't do as
good a job, So what are we gonna do? Find
them all? Like, you've got to keep your yard looking nice.
Look at this, there's weeds growing out of the cracks
in your sidewalk. Why don't you do something about this?

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Nope?

Speaker 1 (30:38):
What do you mean? Nope?

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Nope. I'm not going to make them fix their yard.
I am not an HOA, and I do not support
Hoa's But if there is an ordinance on the books
that you cannot do this as a city ordinance, then
it must be enforced or taken off.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
The balls voted out more emails. Scott says, I'm curious
if the yard in the grass includes that grass between
the curb and the sidewalks. Gary Sadelmeyer refers to it
the hell strip. I don't know why he can.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
He's got an actual name, but I can't remember what
it is right now.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Tony.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yes, it is Tony Tim.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
We'll make it a movie reference. They call it Tim.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Is that Life of Brian.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
No, it's Holy Grail, Holy Grail, Tim the Enchanter my
new my new favorite. Every time I watch Holy Grail,
I have a new favorite scene from that movie. And
the last time I saw it, I couldn't stop laughing
at Tim the Enchanter. I don't know that I ever
found that part funny when I first saw it as
a teenager. But now my eyes are crying. They're almost

(31:52):
melting out of my skull. That scene is so funny,
just whipping around with that staff, blowing up trees and stuff.
They call me Tim. Yeah, so it's Tim. It's the
name of that. I'm curious if that includes the grass
between the curb and the sidewalk. A few of our
neighbors have two wheels on the street and then two
on the strip there. That's not that's parked there, all right,

(32:17):
So I don't I don't have a problem with that,
especially if it means that if you're fully parked in
the street, then the emergency vehicles can't get through. But
if you're half in the street and half up on
the strip of grass in front of your house. Well,
so yeah, this looks like they're trying to They're like,

(32:40):
we know, it's not ideal. I'd rather have a fire
truck or you and your friends have be able to
get up and down the street. Then for me to
have four wheels parked in the street. What's it come down?

Speaker 2 (32:51):
It boils down to there are people that work very,
very hard for their money and they spend it to
make their yards life nice because that's what they want
to spend their money on. And they work hard on
making that yard look nice. And to just have everything
all around it make you an island of somebody who

(33:13):
cares about how things look. I mean that it's it's
just it's really disappointing. And that's why you have people
moving out of neighborhoods where you've got cars that are
parked all over the place, and then now every house
has got a car parked on the front yard.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
They're in lies the crux of the issue and the
solution you just nailed it. I will put another my
point on it here in just a moment.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Scott Fores News Radio eleven ten k FAD.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Named that strip of grass between the curve and the
sidewalk tim Timothy in more formal instances, and west Omaha
we refer to it as Timothy. So here we are
on news radio seven ten KFAB. Thanks for being here.
The issue is should people be able to park their
cars in their yard? Yeah? It looks trashy, but there

(34:08):
are a lot of things people do in their yards
with their house, their kids running around. You'd be like,
I don't like those kids running around. Oh no, they
put it in a basketball hoop. He's gonna be out there
shooting hoops all night.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
One time, I wore my bikini wearing doing the yard
and that's it. One time. One time.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, but you lay out every single day, including during
the winter.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Ain't nobody.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
You're not gonna turn ten, You're gonna turn blue. So
the issue of all of this is, well, how do
you rectify the situation? Do you tow cars? Do you
issue fines? Do you tell Lucy to put a coat on?
What do you do? You gotta just be better if
people need to be better and realize, like, all right,
how would I like it if my neighbor across the

(34:51):
street did this? All right? So then why would I
do that to them? Just be better? Be and if
you have an issue, go talk to your neighbor and go, look,
this is not ideal, okay, and just try and be
better about it.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Is that and videotape that I want to see the results.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Of that, and then get punched in the eye. Start
of the program, I said, I've heard a few things
here on KFAB News updates that I want to talk
about this morning. I didn't know that the previous topic
about cars and yards would take up the entirety of
the nine o'clock hour, in addition to the various side
roads we go down on this program. But yeah, that

(35:29):
conversation took up about the entire hour, and I think
the what we decided was, I think the ordinance is
good the way it is, but you have to enforce it.
And that doesn't mean finds. It means toe that mother
off the yard if someone is just parking the thing
in the yard and leaving it there forever. It's called

(35:52):
the FAFO ordinance. And Mayor Ewing, he's a strong guy,
lifts a lot of weights. He'll come pick up your
car and haul it away in his teeth if he
has to. He's very strong, lifts a lot of weights.
He can lift up your car, especially if there's no
engine block or tires on it. It's just living there
in the yards. So other than that, everyone needs to

(36:14):
be a better neighbor. Have some pride in your domicile
and think about how that impacts the people around you.
That's true your house, your apartment, your town home, your
biv whack, your homeless tint.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
My pool host.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Yeah, the pool house, the guest house, the guesthouse's pool house,
the chalet. It's true of all of this stuff. It's
also true of how we just drive and walk amongst
each other. Take care of your business and think about
how it impacts those around you. Take care of your life,
or at least put on a brave face and go

(36:54):
out there and do the best you can realize, and
everyone else probably doing about the same thing. You know,
You're up on a Monday morning going, oh man, I'm
all stressed out. I gotta get back to work. I
didn't get any sleep last night. I keep waking up
and thinking, oh no, what about this? How am I
going to do this? And all the rest of this stuff,
And then you go out there and you get mad
at everybody. You see people you know, people you don't
know without giving them the grace to realize. Hey, I

(37:17):
wonder if they're going through some stuff as well. Take
care of your life or fake it to the best
of your abilities, Give people grace and think about how
your actions, looks, words impact those around you. And then
we won't need any ordinances. We can get rid of
the police department. See wouldn't that be a liberal dream

(37:39):
come true? No fines, no cops. We all just take
care of each other, and not in a communal hippie way.
Just be a decent person. Here, here's a phrase I
just came up with. I know it's kind of old
world conversational style, but hear me out, do unto others

(38:00):
as you would have others do unto you. I just
made that up. I do unto others the way you
would have others do unto you.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
Wow, I know you should write that down.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
It's the aluminum rule.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
The aluminum. It's malleable aluminum, so we aluminumum abom. My
wife can't say abdomen. I just called her out on
it too. It's funny stomach dude, stomach tummy tom. So

(38:39):
that's We've talked about that story an hour ago. In
the past hour and now. So here's the next one.
The other story you've been hearing KFAB newscast all morning
has to do with a guy named Scott who had
a little too much to drink.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
The other day. No, not me though, Nah, I'm to
write that down though, I'll just say it right now.
I'll forget side note. We haven't fully gotten into the story.
Right time for a quick side note. Yeah, my wife
and I went out to North Italia, brand new restaurant

(39:12):
opening up at Village Point. They kind of did one
of those training nights where they said, look the kitchen
and the wait staff and everyone, we're still getting our
feet under us. Do you want to help us practice
making food and serving it? And we said, yeah, that's great.
So it turns out they absolutely know what they're doing.

(39:34):
And I will be going back again and again North Italia.
If it's not completely open this week, it's opening soon
at Village Point. And if you're like, oh, it's like
just spaghetti and stuff, I'll tell you what I ate.
I had the short rib, the braized short rib Marsala

(39:55):
and there was no pasta involved. It was just melt
in your mouth. Good. My wife had the sea bass.
If that is sea bass? I did that line. My
server said, yeah, it's sea bass. She didn't understand. There's
your nineties movie reference for the segment radio segment and eating.

(40:17):
My wife said, is this sea bass? And she goes yes.
I said, if that is sea bass. She looked at
me and goes, it is sea bass. I was like, sorry,
it's a it's a line from a movie. It's dumb
and dumber. So we went there on Friday night and
had a wonderful time. I wanted to thank them for
letting us help them practice. The pleasure was all mine.

(40:37):
I'm willing to help anytime. Now. Where was I Another
guy named Scott that had a little bit to drink
the other day? He is the pot of Watamee County.
He's on the Potawatamee County Board of Supervisors. Also, if
I'm not mistaken, and I might be, I know that

(40:59):
he at one point was putting forth a write in
campaign for mayor of Council Bluffs. He had done it before,
it didn't work, he didn't become mayor, but I think
I think he did it again. I know that there
were flyers around town. You would beat, you pop into
like a high ve in Council Bluffs, and you see

(41:19):
like a sign taped the wall right end, Scott Belt
for Mayor of Council Bluffs. And the race between now
former Council Bluffs Mayor Matt Walsh and the new mayor
Council Bluffs. Uh, well, I don't remember her name, but

(41:40):
you know she's she's the new mayor Counsel Bluffs. She'll
have to do something so I can fully remember her name,
Lisa Tim I don't remember, so. Uh. The margin between
them was including the write in votes. And Scott Belt
is a more conservative guy. Matt Walsh a more conservative guy.

(42:03):
You could argue Scott Belt took the mayor's race from
Matt Walsh, which is, by the way, a miss argument.
If Wals should earn those votes, he would have received
them and they wouldn't have gone to a write in candidate. Sorry,
as I am to say that I always liked and
still liked Matt Walsh. So this guy says write me in,

(42:27):
and people did. There were a lot of votes for
writing candidates in the city elections and council loves so
he didn't win, and maybe that's why he took things
a little hard. According to Pottawatamee County Attorney Matt Wilbur,
Scott Belt showed up the other day at a meeting

(42:49):
of the Pottawatomie count of Border Supervisors and was intoxicated.
According to Attorney Wilbur, he stopped into a bar are
before the meeting. Patrons there said, hey, man, you've had
a little bit to drink. Maybe you shouldn't go to
your board a supervisor's meeting. He says, I'm fine. The

(43:12):
patrons at the bar, according to court documents, This story
from k e TV News Watch seven said it was quickly,
very apparent that he was already intoxicated just coming into
the establishment. Then he had a beer and a mixed drink,
which he said he took the rest with him after
the bartender put it in a plastic cup for him.

(43:35):
Wait a second, I know the council, this Council Bluffs
has got they got a few different things going in there.
You can I guess his open carriers.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Well, maybe the meeting was just upstairs.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
Sorry open carriers for firearms?

Speaker 2 (43:49):
One am I talking about open container?

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Open container laws? You can are there no open container
laws and Council Bluffs.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Maybe he was drinking at the bar downstairs.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
Well, usually when you get your drink in a to
go cup, Well you.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Got to walk up the stairs. You don't want to
carry glass. You're drunk.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
I don't know that he was drunk.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
I didn't say he was drunk.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
I'm saying we weren't there, but the people were there
said he appeared to be intoxicated, came in, had more
to drink and was intoxicated. He was leaving and they
said maybe you shouldn't go to the meeting. He says,
I'm fine, and then he showed up at the meeting.
According to the Pottawatamere County Attorney Matt Wilbur, he was

(44:37):
having problems speaking when it came to things like leading
the pledge of allegiance. Now, look, I don't know if
the guy has a problem, and this is your I
don't know if you've hit bottom here, but we're in
that vicinity and you need to seek help. And hopefully
this will be that call that he needs, if indeed

(45:00):
he has a problem, to get the help he needs.
That said, I went diving into the Internet to find
the audio and video of him slurring his way through
the Pledge of allegiance and then tripping over a chair
and I couldn't find it. I don't know that I
would have played it on the air.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
But but that's what's alleged happened.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
This is what it is alleged. Well, he was at
the meeting. It's a public meeting. Now, if this were
the Omaha City Council meeting, then you'd see it, you know,
And I don't. I would love to malign one of
the council members by saying, if so and so does
this again, but I'm not going to do that to
Amy Melton. So that's a joke. So let's see here.

(45:44):
So they said that he showed up the meeting. They're like, hey, Scott,
how about you lead the pledge of allegiance? And I
could absolutely mimic how that might go, but I don't
want to malign his character or the pledge of allegiance,
So you do it. And then he was and he
tripped over a chair and then oh boy, oh we're

(46:06):
not done. Another supervisor says, hey, man, I think it's
time for you to leave. He called that supervisor a
quote jack off unquote and threatened to kick his rear end.
This was also caught on camera with audio again where
I it's not I'm not gonna put it on the air,

(46:29):
and I'm not gonna share it with friends as just
part of my exhaustive show prep to try and do
the most homework I can to see what's happening here.
I need to see this for journalistic standard reasons, and
that's all I do. I want to when I take

(46:50):
any sick pleasure from seeing a guy drunk his way
through the Pledge of allegiance, trip over a chair, call
a fellow supervisor a jack off, and threat to fight.
And yeah, no, let's pretend the answer is no. I
wouldn't take any personal pleasure in any of this stuff.
But it seems like it exists, and I don't know

(47:10):
why I can't find it. I didn't really search Twitter.
I should search Twitter. So this happened the meeting of
the supervisors about a week and a half ago. Since then,
according to the story from k E TV News Watch,

(47:31):
seven lots of people came forward and said, I've had
similar experiences with him. What do you mean you've had
similar experiences with him? You were at a bar and
he was having a drink. That's what he was at
the bar, and he decided to lead the bar in
the pledge of allegiance and then threatening to fight a
guy in the parking lot but tripped over a chair
and couldn't get up. Is are these what do you

(47:52):
mean similar experiences with him? But the allegation is he
had been intoxicated while acting in his official capacity at
least seven times in the past thirteen months. Question, what
is the official capacity of the Pottawatamee County Board of Supervisors?

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Seven times in thirteen months? Yeah, that's only like once
every other month. I mean, come on, barely, I know.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Pardon my ignorance. What does the Potawatamee County Board of
Supervisors do well? They supervise the entire county. It's a
huge county. You think Pottawatamee County's just council Bluffsnow it
goes way out there. It's a huge it's a huge county.
And it's a pain in my neck because we here

(48:44):
on news radio eleven to ten kfab kind of do
our like big importance severe weather coverage when you've got
storms in certain counties, potawatame certainly being one of them.
But there's a storm clear on the eastern edge of
Potawatamee County, and it's moving away from us. It's like
an hour away, and people are like, hey, I heard

(49:05):
that there was a severe thunderstorm morning to Potawatamee County. Yeah,
but like way out there, it's not even anywhere close
to here. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not sitting here
at two o'clock in the morning for that. So what
I'm saying is it's it would make me drink too.
He's like, hey, you got to go supervise something clear
on the eastern seaboard of Potawatamee County. It's like a
gonna that's that's the guy all day. It takes a

(49:27):
long time to get over there. Who wouldn't drink? What
are you laughing at? So then he resigned his position
as board chair. But still so the alet this all
happened on November.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Fifth, he's already resigned.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
No, No, it took five days. He resigned the as
board chair on the tenth. But he's not he didn't
resign from the whole board. He's like, fine, someone else
lead the Pledge of Allegiance. There's a lot of words
in that pledge do you have any idea how difficult
the word allegiance is to say, if you've had a
few too many, someone else do it. So he resigned

(50:09):
his chair, but he didn't resign from the board, and
then a judge this past Friday suspended him, and then
pottawaname county attorney Matt Wilbur had to file a petition
to remove him from his position as a county supervisor.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Wait a minute, he won't leave. Wait a minute, none
of this all. Aren't these all still just allegations? Yeah,
shouldn't he? Well, I mean, how many people saw this?
I guess if forty five people saw it exactly as
it has been presented. I mean, I hate saying when

(50:48):
people say I mean, yeah, I know, and I've said
like fourteen.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Times I know I was going to say something, but.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
You should call me on on it.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
No that and like, no, it's fine. The I don't
know what it would take to do. They have to
have like a special election. He'll probably be like, put
me in as a write end vote. Like no, no,
that's not you already did that. Let's see here. I
suppose I could keep reading. So a committee, I don't

(51:17):
know who's on the committee will appoint a temporary board
member since the judge suspended him. Now the position is
legally vacant. A judge said, you are no longer on
the Board of Supervisors. I am a judge. I for
sware And now there's a hearing. But in the until

(51:39):
the hearing is done, they can appoint someone to the board.
If the petition is dismissed, then he's reinstated. But if
it's not, then the aforementioned whatever the committee is appoints
a successor for the remainder of the term, which might
involve a special election. People on Council Bluffs are like,

(52:02):
we just had an election. We already had, We already
put his name down on there. I don't know. I
don't think I know this guy. He looks familiar, and
I've done a lot of Republican Party party stuff in
Council Bluffs and in Pottawadamee and Mills County, and it
seems like I probably met this guy a time or two.

(52:24):
He looks like a decent guy. I mean, like I said,
this might be the call he needs to get the
help he needs. Or maybe he was just really mad
that I thought my right in candidacy would propel me
to be the mayor of Council Bluffs, and I'm having
a hard time dealing with it. But I didn't know

(52:45):
I was doing it in the wrong way. I apologize.
I'm all good, don't even worry about it, and he
can just bootstrap his way right about his life. Either way,
you probably shouldn't show up to a county board meeting
drunk or or otherwise similarly intoxicated.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Well, I mean unless you're unless you're going unless what.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
I tried to put the nicest spin on it, and
now you're you're what.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
No. I I was exasperated with myself for saying. I
mean again, so if you were going to I don't know,
a show or concert and you had the ability to
drink at said show or concert and you had a driver,
then yeah, you can show up for that. A meeting

(53:39):
depends on what you're meeting about.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
But no, this is this is the board of This
is the county board.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
I know what it is.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
So they do things like, for example, I imagine that
it would be something to where they would have some
supervision over the approval of a liquor license, and he's
like rubberstant rubber stant like this place should have a
liquor license, Like it's a data center.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Well, I thought you were gonna say daycare.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
That would be funnier. It's a daycare. It's KinderCare Laker license.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
Scott Boys News Radio eleven kfab.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
I have a number of emails saying, hey, if this
board a supervisor guy in pottawatame County has a hard
time not having a few drinks and going to official meetings.
You know, here in Nebraska, we've got a spot open
on the the State Liquor Commission. Perhaps perhaps maybe he

(54:37):
could slide over. He could potentially maybe or maybe could
be the the former head of Nebraska Liquor Commission who
had problems, according to the allegations with everything, and the
county board supervisor and Potawatamie who has allegations of problems

(54:58):
with showing up to meetings while not being it sober.
Maybe they could meet at the Peppermint Hippo and they
could we could figure out a way forward for all
of this. And the Peppermint Hippo's kind of right between
Lincoln and the far reaches of Pottawatamee County. They could
meet at the peppermint hippo. Thursday night is spaghetti night?

(55:21):
Or is Wednesday night spaghetti night? I forget? But have
we ever really talked about Council Bluffs on the stream?

Speaker 4 (55:30):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Now, seriously, I know, and emails come up all the
time and they refer to Council Bluffs in kind of
a red necky slur. I don't do that. I don't
refer to council Bluffs in that way. I'm not saying
that in my entire life. I've never done that. But
I've come to realize something about Council Bluffs, and that

(55:56):
is the people who live in Council Bluffs realize like, Okay, yes,
sometimes I'll make some wink joke about, you know, the
Council Bluff Symphony or something like that, which I don't
know that. I don't know that there I don't think
there is, but you know, the Council Bluff Symphony. But

(56:17):
it's it's not a council Bluff shot. It's it's small
town you know, funny haha thing. Right. I could say
the same thing about Wahoo, Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
You know the wrong with Wahoo. I'm just saying it's,
you know, it's why do you have to pick Wahoo.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
All right, I say that I will go outside the
broadcast signals.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
I happened to like Wahoo.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Brule, Nebraska. The Brule Symphony was scheduled to play this weekend,
but the washboard player has a bad wrist. So it
is your state.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Stop it.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
I used. I used to date a girl from Brule.
I've been there.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
Find a little town in Iowa, if you want to
pick on a little.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
Town, Council Bluffs compared to Omaha, a little town. And
it is interesting that you go across the river and
here's Omaha with all the big buildings and fancy art
centers and arenas and all this stuff, and then Council
Bluffs really doesn't have any of that. And so here's

(57:16):
the thing I've come to realize about Council Bluffs. They
don't care. They've got plenty of entertainment. They've got casinos,
they've got other casinos, and the people who live there say,
you know what else we have? We have low property taxes.

(57:38):
I'm sure that they still complain about what their property
taxes are, but relative relative to Omaha, they've got low
property taxes. They've got a good sense of community, and
the people who live in Council Bluffs are generally satisfied
about their lives and Council Bluffs, Yeah, do they really
have like a regency area of Council Bluffs. Not really,

(58:00):
not to say that all the homes are lean tos.
I mean they've got some really nice neighborhoods and some
really nice shops and areas. And I love Council Bluffs.
I always loved Council Bluffs. I've always thought it was
a really interesting place to go and visit and see
what's going on over there.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
I got lost up in the hills of Council Bluffs
up behind like wherever the Railroad Museum is so kind
of in that area. But then ever on those top hills, yeah,
I didn't want to come out.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
I would always I just want to stay lost. I
bet I could find it again. But I had a
little hideaway up there in the hills of Council Bluffs
when I was in high school. And as far as
I remember, I think you go to Burger King and
take a left. I think it's right over the bridge,
and then you hang a left, and then there's a
little parking lot and you can just walk up there
and it's not a recognized trail, but myself and all

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the other high school kids we had a little spot.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Up there all the way from Ralston.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
Yeah. Well someone, you know, it's always someone like they
come running in. They're all breathless, like, guys, you got
to check this out. Basically, it's the same premise to
stand by me, do you guys want to go check
this out? And you go walking all day and you
look at it. So I've always liked Council Bluffs. I
don't make fun of Council Bluffs. Not in the same
I mean, I make fun of everybody, but I don't

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look down on Council Bluffs.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
Unless you're on top of the hill.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
The Iowa West Foundation and the Council Bluffs Chamber of
Commerce commissioned research conducted by a professor from UNO. They
couldn't even find a professor in Council and they asked
residents what they think about living in Council Bluffs, and
the results came back that there they have pride of

(59:52):
living in Council Bluffs. They feel positive about their overall
quality of life, access to parks, recreation amenities, Lake Manawa.
I mean, they feel positive about their jobs, they feel
positive about their living conditions, and they have strong social
connections and deep family roots. They like living in Council

(01:00:15):
Bluffs what's the butt, But they feel because Omaha people
mostly make fun of them. They feel like they're not
supposed to feel that pride for living in Council Bluffs.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Who filled this out?

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
The people of Council Bluffs.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Yeah, would they ask ten?

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
So here's a I don't know how many people they
asked you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
We don't feel that way about Council Bluffs. Council Bluffs.
We love you, we love you, I love Council Bluffs.
We don't feel that way about you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
But okay, if we're if we're being honest here, most
people in Omaha, I don't know if this is like,
what would you rather have people in Omaha like making
fun of you and calling your names and all that
stuff anyway, or just not really thinking about you. People
in Omaha generally don't really think much about then. I'm

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not they're not occupying their thoughts with Council Bluffs usually.
I don't know what's that, But you could say the
same thing about people in Omaha generally aren't thinking all
that much about Lincoln, Oh no, you know until you're there,
and then you're like, how is it I live in
such close proximity this place and I still get lost
all the time. That's generally what people in Omaha think

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about Lincoln and Council Bluffs.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
It's because whoever laid out the streets and Lincoln was stupid.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
I still haven't figured out the express lanes on the Interstate.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
In coun Bluffs. Yeah, at least there are lots of signs.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
Right, Lincoln stupid. Yeah, But then like I feel like
it's counterintuitive to go straight by going right. So they talked.
So here's one woman they talked to. She says Council
Bluff's native born and raised, loves living there, but is
susceptible to negative views of her hometown. She says in

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the story here from KMTV three News now, quote, I
have a lot of those old attitudes. I'm continuously surprised
and someday, I hope I'm not by how much people
love living here, because we don't talk about ourselves that way. Unquote.
It's like people love living there, but it's self deprecating.

(01:02:31):
And they also say it feels like young people who
live here don't want to come back and raise families here. Yeah,
but that's true of everywhere. Yeah, it doesn't make you
think of the coolest town in America that you can
think of other than Omaha. What's the coolest town in America?
Do you have one? Do you think, like, you know what,
that's a really cool town.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
I've had some in the past. I wouldn't consider them today. Gosh,
I don't know. I can't the coolest towns town in America?

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
No, you can't think of a town you're like, I
like going there. It's a cool town. I'll fill in
the gap. Nashville.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
Yeah, I haven't been.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Let's go to Nashville. Nashville might be the coolest town
in America.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
What would you say it still is today?

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Yeah? Okay, in fact, it's cooler today than ever. So
there are kids right now who are in their senior
years of high school saying I can't wait to get
out of Nashville. It's just how it goes. Yeah, there
are kids here in Omaha's I can't wait. I'm as
soon as I'm out of here. I'm out of here,
as soon as I can get out of oh my
oar council bluffs. I'm leaving it. I never come back,

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but we all do. We realize, like, oh, you know what,
that's actually a pretty cool place to raise a family.
I generally enjoyed growing up there and a good, good job,
and I want to go back and I want to
be closer to my family and friends. And that's kind
of true of everywhere. And people on Council Bluff say, well,

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how are we going to keep the young people? You
will retain the young people eventually, that's because that's what
every town deals with. I roll my eyes so hard
I need to see an optometrist every time I hear
someone in Omaha say what are we going to do
to attract young people? Graduate high school or college and
then come back here? And like that every town, you

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know what we do. We just wait for the young
people to leave Omaha good. I don't like most of
them anyway, including my own, And then we wait for
the young people graduate someplace else to come to Omaha
and they realize, hey, this is a pretty cool place.
And we don't feel that way in Omaha either, do we.
We all kind of look down at ourselves. It wasn't

(01:04:45):
even that long ago. I'm not I am, though I
want to say, I'm not that old, but I am.
And anyway, it doesn't seem like that long ago. I
was in school and we were down in Arkansas, and
that's where the kid asked where we were from, and

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we said Omaha, blank stare, and I said Omaha, Nebraska.
He's like, is that a big town. I'm thinking you
haven't heard of Omaha, Nebraska. And I said yeah, and
he said, y'all got a grocery store.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Not a big baseball player, was he?

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
We We we were teenagers, we were like thirteen fourteen.
We were down there for a basketball camp. He was
from someplace in Arkansas. He'd never heard of.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
Us, and he didn't know if we had a grocery store.

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
You all got a grocery store, I said, yeah. We
Actually we had to put a parking garage next to
it because it's so popular. He's like, oh, he didn't
know what a parking garage was. But I'll tell you
another cool place, Fayetteville, Arkansas. And I guarantee the people
live there are like, oh, people look at us like
we're hicks. Well yeah, but that's part of the charm.
If I moved to Arkansas and there weren't people you know,

(01:05:55):
making whiskey out of a still on every corner. I'd
feel a little cheated. I'm like, that's what I can for.
I want to come down here as a dentist and
make a fortune. I'd feel cheated if that weren't the case.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
I don't think they're going to let you come there anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
I'm gonna have a chapel that only marries people within
their own families, and I'll retire in a month. I'd
feel cheated if these stereotypes weren't there. Now. See, I'm
saying the stuff about not Council Bluffs we chose, and
everyone's laughing, like, ah, we're making fun. But there are

(01:06:32):
people that say O that kind of thing about Council
Bluffs here in Omaha, and Council Bluffs res it according
to the polls here love living there, but they feel
bad that they love living there. I'm here to absolve
you of that negativity you feel about Council Bluffs. You're
doing great, don't even worry about it. You are having

(01:06:57):
a splendiferous life in Council Bluffs.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
And now they can relax because you, Scott Vorhees, have
given them the blessing.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
Sure, now they don't know what that word is I
just used.

Speaker 4 (01:07:11):
But Scott Vorhees News Radio eleven to ten kfab.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
I'll use the terminology in this email because it comes
from a guy who lives in Council Bluffs. So if
he's allowed to say these things, he lives in Council Bluffs.
Terry and CB says Scott, I grew up in Omaha.
I've worked and lived in Council Bluffs for almost forty years.
I think that Omahans joke about the toothless rednecks of
Council Tucky. See that's the term I don't use, but

(01:07:36):
I'll read it in an email from a guy who
lives over here. He says, they joke about Council Tucky
because they've never been to Plattsmith or Murray. What wait,
it's just just an gratuitous shot at Murray, Nebraska. Platsmith's
a great place too. And Terry in Council Bluff says, yes,
there is a Council Bluff Symphony. In fact, I have

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a little audio right here. Terry started it. By the way,
I would go listen to this every weekend. Love me
some Bluegrass, love hanging out with you on this radio station,
thanks for being with us today. On News Radio eleven
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