October 30, 2025 • 35 mins
KFAB's former afternoon host returns to address "the incident" and his future plans.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott VORDIEZ.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Our conversation in this hour is going to be, well,
it's gonna be something else. It's gonna be something probably
a long time coming for many people. But it starts
off with some prefacing. I have to there's two moments
here in this conversation. I need to preface the conversation.
The second prefacing will happen a little bit later in
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this conversation, which also talks more about why our guest
is here. The first bit of disclaimer is as follows,
four and a half years ago on this radio station,
there was a messy breakups sometimes happens in this business,
and there's not really anything I can say about that situation,
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what happened behind the scenes, what led to this or
this decision or whatever. As a member of management here
at News Radio eleven ten kfab and I heart me omaha,
there's just nothing I can get into on that. We
can speak though and allow our guests for the first
time in over four and a half years, to use
this radio station to speak to these listeners and this
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community about that situation. But there's just not a lot
I can say about it. So that's disclaimer number one.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
With that great song it is.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's a pleasure to welcome back here on news radio
eleven ten KFAB, our former afternoon host of about ten
years or so. But it's been a while, Chris Baker,
welcome back to the KFAB studios.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Well, thank you very much, Scott. It is. It's weird.
It's great to be here though, and I'm sure Jim
is very happy with all of the upgrades in the studio.
It's like twice the size.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yes, yeah, Well, the cocktail bar is coming along nicely.
It's not quite done yet. That margarita machine is going
to interfere with a lot of your live reads. People
are wondering if you and I are just going to
goof off in the next hour, or if we're going
to talk about why you're here, which we'll get to. Yeah,
but I know that you've been You've been living with
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something for the last several years, and I want to
give you an opportunity to address that you and this
radio station parted ways in April of twenty twenty one.
This is something that has loomed over all of us
since that point. The platform is yours.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Well, you've heard the commercials for gold Bonn and the
heartbreak of psariasis, and I have no I'm kidding. So
it's it's bizarre to me to be here because the
last time I was here, I knew this was that
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that was going to be the last time that I
was here because of what I refer to as the
tweet of death. And the best way to summarize this,
I think is Scott. You know, I've always talked about
this business. You know how much I love this business,
and I've always said this is a trapdoor industry. At
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any moment, that door can open and you're gone. That's
what we all live with. That's what I lived with
for over twenty years in the broadcast business. And you know,
my name came up, made a dumb mistake and the
hardest part of it. I mean, there's a lot of
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hard stuff about it, but it wasn't just how it
affected me, how it affected other people. It affected my kids.
You know, one of my kids got jumped at school.
You know how it affected my wife because she's a
teacher and all these teachers know what I do or
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what I did, so she spent a lot of time
having to explain it. And then one of the really
tough things is that when you're in the opinion business,
you're you're accustomed to having the arrow shot at you.
That's just part of the game. You develop a very,
very thick skin. But when I talked to clients, what
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they had to put up with was something that you know,
I really thought that that local other local media would
talk to me. They were all doing stories, but nobody
talked to me. Nobody came. I even called them, hey,
you are doing the story about me, and I'm right here.
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I don't have anything to do this afternoon, so we could,
we could talk, but they didn't. And I think, you know,
as an advertiser, if you think about it, at the time,
everybody was coming out of COVID businesses who had been
desperately trying to hang on keep their employees make a living.
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They're starting to emerge from the COVID insanity. And then
next thing, you know, mister bonehead goofs up a tweet
and they're not used to that heat. I'm used to
the heat, right, but the advertisers of kfab are not
used to the heat. And so you know, that bothered me.
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It's still bothers me. And you know, I wasn't gonna
say this because I do understand that there are people
who relished what happened. That was the This was the
perfect opportunity to do this, and I wasn't going to
talk about it, but I thought, you know what, I've
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always in this room. I've always been honest. I've always
been honest with the audience. But there is not a
day that goes by that on an hourly basis, I
relive that moment. I absolutely relive it. I remember, Josh
was where you are, Bird was sitting right here. They're
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goofing around. In the meantime, I got Tony Connor doing
an interview and I goof up this stupid tweet, and
now I'm trying to figure out how to take it down,
and I'm asking Bird and Josh, well, they're busy goofing around,
and Bird and Josh so they don't even know what happened.
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And so and I relive it every day. I think
about it in the capacity of what would we be
doing now? And you know, I listened to Gary when
he made his announcement the other day, and which, by
the way, congratulations to him. I can gush over him
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all day and probably will as we talk. But I
think about it every day. I relive it every day.
I ask myself, if you just would have been paying attention,
why weren't you paying attention? And so that's something that
I'll probably never move past because the reality isn't I
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always said to the audience that since I was a
tiny little kid, maybe even as a fetus, I'm not
sure I wanted to be on the radio. But at
the same time, I'm really blessed because I did get
to be on the radio, and I got to do
some of the greatest things. You and I have made
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tremendous radio over the years, which I'm sure will hopefully rehash.
But as I was, you know, preparing for today, I
realized that, first of all, at least half of my
radio career, between Levington, KFAB and k CAR and the Edge,
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half of my radio career has been right here in Omaha, Nebraska.
And you add that to when I used to come
through town at the Funny Bone, killing by the way,
at the Funny Bone, of course, just killing, just killing.
You know, this town has been a major part of
my life. My wife is from here. We're still married.
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Despite some people won't mention any names who were publicly
rooting for our divorce. Oh, it's.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I apologize for that.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Well, you've always had a thing for her. Let me,
it's funny, you know, it's funny. Hi, Lucy, good to
see you, Chris. I was going to bring Lucy some
glazed croissants, but I couldn't find it. Yeah, but I
opened up the conversation with him was, yes, I know
I haven't seen you in a while. I got fat.
Let's just get that right out of there.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well on, everyone stop it, let me let me try
and reset here. Yes, because there'll be some people who
are listening who have no idea what we're talking about.
With as you refer to the tweet of death Chris Baker,
Chris Baker's with us, a former longtime Afternoon host here
on eleven ten kfab messy breakup four and a half
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years ago, and at the root of that was a
tweet that was described by some people, and this came
through in various media outlets as a quote racist tweet.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I received no fewer than eighty seven trillion emails about
you really since since that time. Oh, there's one that
sticks out, and I want to give you a chance
to address It came from a listener and I don't
remember her name, but she said, I've been listening to
this radio station and you guys and loving Chris's show
for years. I'm black, and I see what people are
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saying right now, and I see the tweet, and I'm
wondering if my affinity for Chris was all based on
a lie. Is Chris Baker racist?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Most people who would call me that, regardless of what
I did or said, would would never change that opinion.
But I mean, let's just let's be honest. You know, no,
absolutely not. And I think, you know, in my time
here on the radio, I was, I think one of
the only people in town that was true in to
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remind people of multiple multiple murders where there were one
hundred people there but apparently no witnesses, you know. And
if you look at my radio career, of all the
years I was on the radio, this the tweet of
death is the only thing right. And that's been my
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biggest frustration, or one of them, is that I've been
able to do so many great things and the you know,
but it's all summed up in a dumb tweet that
was really, you know, an accident. But but let me
I'll tell you a quick story. When you do talk radio,
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you there are certain stories and certain callers that never
go away from you. You never ever forget them. And
there's one story out of Houston, and there was a
girl named Tanishus Stewart, and I talked about it here
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on my show. Tanisha Stewart was a girl who grew
up in a really really rough neighborhood. And but she
stayed focused and she went to school. She did her homework,
she did all the right things. She got a full
ride scholarship to Texas A and M, which is an
amazing engineering school, and so here she was. She goes
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to Texas A and M. And so she came home
during a break and being the person that she is,
and if anybody wants to look this story up, go ahead.
Her name's Tanisha Stewart in Houston, Texas. She went to
go went to her old boyfriend who was a guy
with a not a not a great guy, and went
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to tell him we're I'm we're breaking up because I'm
going to college. I'm going this direction and you're not.
And so instead of you know, texted him or instead
of calling him, she went and talked to him. Well,
it didn't go over well. So he murdered her. And
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if there's any kids in the car, you probably don't
want to hear these details, but they're important. He murdered her.
He I'll give you a minute to turn down the radio. Okay.
He murdered her. He dismembered her, and he cooked her,
and he smashed her, you know, he smashed her and
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destroyed all of her remains. There was a guy named
quantel X in Houston and he was the head of
the AM I late for the break. I see you
getting answered, all right, I'll finish well, let me do this, okay.
So so quantel X, I always really liked Quantell and
I don't know if he really liked me that much,
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but we did. It'd always get along quant Lex's New
Black Panther party. So after that story came out, there's
a lot of stuff to a but Kwanell and Harri's
County Sheriff Tommy Thomas were working together to not let
a lot of these details go out publicly until this
guy went on trial. But the bottom line was, this
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girl's mother never got to bury her. Her remains are
no telling where they're scattered or whatever. So that bothered me.
It bothered me a lot still does today. And so
this is the kind of guy that I am. I
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felt that what she had done with her life meant
something and that the kids who grew up and lived
in that same neighborhood they should know about this. So
I went to some people in Austin, Texas and in
Harris County, and I was trying to lobby that. I
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was on the radio at the time, and so I
was trying to lobby them to name a school after
her right name, name the Tanisia Stewart Elementary or Junior whatever.
And you know, nobody cared it was they were, you know,
basically the way that I interpreted it was that, well,
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she's just another dead black girl. And so I talked
with Kwanell about it a lot, and he and I
we hatched a a strategy and we were trying and
me mostly I was trying to get a school named
after her because I felt that if they would have
named a school after her, when these kids would go
in that school and they would know her story and
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they would know or at least see, you know what,
maybe I can take that, Maybe I can shoot my shot.
So if I'm a racist, why am I working with
a guy from the New Black Panther to get a
school named after a girl because of what that girl
did all on her own. I didn't know her. I
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just knew of her. But there are so many stories
like that that they always stick with me. And you know,
I'm not trying to give the old Oh you don't
I got a lot of friends or whatever. I'm just
telling you that you can't. You know, you can't sit
here and tell me I'm some kind of stupid racist
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when I see these stories constantly, and in my new position, right,
the same thing happens every day in what I do now,
same thing happens every day. So you know that's what
I would say. Well, ma'am, if you can ever get
Quantel on the phone, I'm sure he would say something
nice about me. He was really cool too. I love
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quante Lex.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I've known you for a very long time. You're one
of the biggest reasons why I'm in radio. I started
off in this business as your intern call screener in
nineteen ninety six, and I still remember that first day.
In all of the days that follows, I have seen
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you watch the news at night and see a kid
get his bike stolen, and the next day you're calling
the news where does this kid live? And you're delivering
that kid a bike. When my window air conditioning unit
from my apartment, I was moving to a different apartment,
didn't need it anymore, and you're like, I know a
family who could use this. We took it over to
their house. There was a young man who was moving
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from juvenile delinquency into trying to get a foothold on employment,
but he didn't have a ride, and you woke up
every morning and took this kid to work. I still
talk it shouldn't matter that these are people of color,
but they are you left out though. Yeah, I've never
seen you do anything nice for white people, That's what
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I'm saying. No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
What I tried today to bring Lucy.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, but you didn't.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, you and I have known each other a long time,
and the accusations that speak to your character I've always
stood up for and always will.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, you're very kind.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Now we get to the next phase of this conversation,
and that is you know why you're here along with
disclaimer number two, and we'll get to that after a
Fox News update in just a moment, our guest in
the studio for the first time in about four and
a half years on this radio station is Chris Baker.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Scott for News Radio eleven ten key F a.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Former afternoon host, Chris Baker. We've addressed some of that
which led to the messy breakup, the tweet of death.
As Chris called it, it's time to move in a
different direction. But before we get to the answer, why
is Chris here? We have a segment on this radio
station we call moonbat Email. Yeah, yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Excellent. I didn't know about this. This is great. This
is a great bib. You know the mayor would come
in and sing with this James author.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, she I remember. I remember the first time she
was sitting here and she's like, do I really have
to do moonbat email? Hue, we missed the thing along
fart oh Man, Well maybe next time. Really, the only
thing we have here from several listeners is they want
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to hear you say two things just so they can
feel whole this morning. They need to hear you read
the beginning of every moonbat email. And they also have
a request for you to work in the word diversity.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Oh well, uh yeah, well, first of all, moonbat email.
I dearly miss the moonbat email. But I got a
lot of moonbad email, and it would always be crious
and it would always be something nasty like they got
ridy you. Yeah, we'll have maybe Camfeeb'll move into a
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more deveraction. We'll have diversity on the airwaves. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, that is fulfilling the requests of several members of
kfab nation this morning. You know, can I do music
to their errors and absolute just to smash of the
years of the people who hate your guts?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Yeah, that's fine. You know. First of all, I have
to say this. Gary came in right just to say hello,
and it's just great to see Gary. I'm not really
a smoker, but when I worked here, Lucy, I don't
know if you know this, but I would always go
outside and smoke cigarettes with Gary, just the smoker. Yeah yeah, well,
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I mean it was it was just it was like
it was a nice hang, you know, out there with
Gary talking you know stuff. And and Gary of course
announces his retirement and we were just talking about it.
I think with Gary's retirement and the and the outpouring
of of of just all these people you know sometimes
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in the world of radio, and I really started looking
at all this from the outside once I was no
longer in it. But people just don't realize how many
lives you touch. And Gary's a great example. There are
people that have only known Gary on KFAB. He grew
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up with them. You know. I got into talk radio
because basically Rush Limbaugh was one of my one of
the big reasons because when I traveled as a comic
killing around the country. I don't know if I've ever
mentioned that, but you're alone and that the host is
your passenger in your car, and even sometimes you talk
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to him. So Gary, and this is one of the
things I always loved about coming to work here because
this is a station that's not just a radio station.
This station is a major part of this community and
the longevity of the host on this station. It allows
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this bond between host, radio station and audience to be
and I mean, I hate being cliche, but it's like
a family. And I will guarantee you now I can
remember when like I miss Rush because I would first
of all, I would love to be doing talk radio
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with everything going on, it is so insane.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Anything you want to say about the Biden administration that
you kind of missed out on.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
You know what, he's coming, He's coming to town by
the Way for a speech, and I was thinking it'd
be cheaper just to bring the auto pin right there.
You go, thank you. But Gary, I always saw him.
He was kind of He's always been kind of the
conscience of the community. If it went on in Omaha, Nebraska,
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I know a lot of people came to find out
what did Gary think? What did Jim think? And they go, ah, whatever,
and then I'm kidding, and what did Scott think? And
what does Lucy think?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Don't fool me with all of your gushing about this
radio station as a guy who when we worked at
the competition for kfab uh, you used to take regular
gratuitous shots at Tom Beca and we used to prank
Charlie and Mary on this radio.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah, so don't fool me with it. Well that was fun.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Look, we're gonna run out of time if we don't
get to its. Chris Baker, what is it that you're
doing here?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
So as a radio blowhard for years I have you're
gonna have to have me back on so we can
keep doing this. But anyway, you have to do a
ton of research in this business. And I have spent
years doing research and watching what I've always referred to
as cycles, cycles of society, cycles of human behavior, cycles
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of political decisions and agendas. And the other part is
that as a radio host, I have always had a
real finger on the pulse of the audience. Well, now
I work at the courthouse and that's what I do.
I deal with people all day, every day, and it's
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eye opening. I mean it's so eye opening. And I
remember back in twenty eighteen, in twenty nineteen, when they
were talking about building the new Juvi Justice Center and
it was going to be great and we're gonna have
all these magic programs and the children are to behave themselves.
None of that happened. They spent twenty seven million dollars
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just on this Juvi Justice Facility that to this day
is empty. There is no one in there. That's twenty
seven million dollars of your money, right. And what got
this really started was when I noticed my house payment
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had exploded. And so the wife and I are talking
about it, and I'm looking at how it happened, and
it's it's much higher taxes and I know that you
know where I'm all right, So here's the deal. I'm
gonna run for county board. All right. I've done so
much research on all of this, but I Chris Baker
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radio Blowhard, former radio Blowhard, I have decided that I
want to run for Douglas County Board in District six
to replace Marianne Borgenson, who has been there for thirty years. Okay,
and they, I believe have They've made some incredible mistakes.
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And the Juvi Justice Center, I believe in things need
to be tangible so people can really see what's up.
The juv Justice Center is. It is an incredible mess.
They spent twenty seven million dollars of your money and
that building it's been open for what three years now
or something hadn't been open. Well it is open. Oh
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oh get ready, it's open and it is now costing
the Douglas County taxpayer a minimum of twenty thousand dollars
a month to keep the building open, as if they're
going to put anybody in there in the first place.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
It's open, it's not doing anything.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
No, it's just sitting there and there is a guy
they pay to walk around turn the lights on and
off and flush the turlets.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
But Chris, they say that we don't need more space
for juvenile crime and juvenile justice as these kids it's
not really causing that big of a problem in our community.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Well, let's see, they just indicted another fourteen year old
with murder within the last week and a half. You know,
the idea of finding ways to get kids to stop
committing crimes, I agree with one hundred percent. I'm right there.
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I think it would be fantastic. But as I've done
my research, we have spent a fortune on things like
counseling and you know, early intervention and all this other
kind of stuff. Well, I want to be a member
of the County Board for a couple of reasons. Number one,
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I want to put new eyes on the needs of
Douglas County. The second thing I want to do is
I want to get that juv Justice center up and running.
One way or another, whether we are we're having kids there,
or whether we lease out that space to the FEDS
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or maybe the state. The Feds you'll get more money.
But this is a great injustice to the Douglas County
taxpayer for you to just you spend this money. You
build this big building, you build this facility, and then
you don't do anything with it. And then the other
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thing that I've seen in my research, and I've done
tons of it, You don't mean, Scott. I'm a research
maniac NonStop. So when they came up with their budget
to build this GV Justice Center, they came up with
a budget to build it so that they could at
least the way I look at it, so they could
sell it to you the public. They didn't budget to
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operate it.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
We are going to We're going to do two things here.
I'm going to actually take our quarter hour break as
opposed to last hour, and I got to get to
disclaimer number two as we talk more now with Chris Baker,
who just announced his run for Douglas County Board here
on eleven ten, Kfab one more segment with Chris, next,
Scott Voice, our guests in the studio. Chris Baker, Chris'
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former host here on Kfab, just a moment ago, announced
he's running for Douglas County Board. Disclaimer number two. You
and I have been friends since we were both little fetuses. Yes,
and I'm proud to say we're still friends today. That said,
when we have politicians, which you now are, thank you
here on the studio. We have good conversations, we have
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fun conversations, but I don't look good into cheer er
leader's outfit. I don't root for anybody you're running against
Mary Anne Borgson, She's been there for a long time,
thirty year. I've had pointed things to say about her.
I've invited her on the program. She's always welcome here.
You're also running in a field that has Colleen Brennan,
who I'm also proud to call a friend. She's been
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on before, and she's already carved out of time to
be on next Tuesday. And I'm not going to have
the two of you guys on every single week. Hey, Hey,
she was on. I'm just good. You know, there's a
lot to talk about in this race. So why is
it that, I mean, you already went through some of
the reasons you want to run on the Douglas County Board.
For a lot of people, though, they say, look, what
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are you guys going to do to bring down my
property taxes? What is the function of the board and
what do you see as an ability to do that
and take it easy on taxpayers? If you were a
member of this commission.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Well, the board is not necessarily controlling your taxes. They
do levies and that kind of stuff. Now, I'm not
going to try to make a bunch of promises. All
I'm going to make every day is going to be
seventy two and sonny, and I'm also going to try
not to ever use the word fight.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
But what I believe that I can do is I
can bring a new vision to the county board. And
I love talking about things that are tangible. The Juvi
Justice Center was designed and built by Marianne Borgenson was
in charge of it with through a nonprofit, and also
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the Sherwood Foundation was part of it. The Sherwood Foundation
got a bunch of press because they pledged ten million bucks. Okay,
and guess what, they never gave it. They never gave
the money. It was five million for the magic programs,
which to their credit, they have spent on magic programs.
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But the five million for construction, they just never never
gave it to them, right, And they said, well, we're
not because it's not opening. Well, if you gave them
the five mil, they could open. They also did some
really interesting things. The commissioners with COVID money. They started
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giving them out to pet Project local nonprofits. There was
a Dollhouse museum in northeast Omaha that received a bunch
of money. This at a time now when Mary Ewing
is like, hey, does anyone have canned food? People need
food in this community. Snap benefits are apparently on the
shelf right now. During the government shutdown, Sheriff Aaron Hanson
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has said this board needs to re engage with immigration
Customs Enforcement to allow them to detain those criminal illegal
immigrants and get paid by the federal government to do so. Yes,
they had done so until September of twenty twenty one.
Now they don't, and they just voted that they're not
going to do it anymore. Well, and let's look at
the reason that they voted now, and this also has
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been a big pet peeve of mine, is that people
get elected and then they forget that they're elected to
govern and not rule. So I read a lot of
the comments from the board and it was, well, we
don't believe in repres you arresting our neighbors, and we
believe the best path forward is to push for comprehensive
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immigration reform, which in reality is just a blanket amnesty.
But also that's four years down the road. You're not
going to get that now. You're not going to get
that during this administration. And you're a county board member.
Your job is not to manage the immigration. Your job
is to make sure that the taxpayer of Douglas County
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gets their money's worth, that offices like the sheriff are
are funded to the level they need to be funded.
And I believe that why would I go in there
and do something? First of all, it'd be a different perspective. Well,
I want to answer that here with one minute to
go with Chris Baker. Here, kid me, this is how,
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this is how it goes. Dude, you've never done this before.
So you got a minute here to respond to people
to say, like, all right, you're talking, don't talk like
a politician. And you've got a lot of history and
social media posts that will come back and in this
campaign tell people why they should consider you for Duglas
County Board and where they can go for more information.
(34:26):
All right, Uh, The Chris Baker website Chris Baker for
Douglas County Board dot com is the website and it
is under construction. I had a little bank problem. You
know what, unbelievable, Scott, A technological problem. But I got
that figured out. So we'll have it all finished up
very soon anyway, probably later today. But why me? Because
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I know more about illegal immigration than anybody in this town.
You know that, all right, I can talk about it.
Second of all, I believe that those people are humans,
And my entire radio career I've said and I've talked
about the abuses. I've talked about the horrible things they
go through. But in reality, what I believe is that
the Douglas County taxpayer needs a voice in that boardroom
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and needs a voice on those County Board votes. And
you know, the members of the County Board are not stupid,
They're not bad people. They're accomplished people. I believe I
can work with them to serve the Douglas County Board.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
We will have more members yet the people of Douglas County.
We will have more conversation. And I'm sorry to cut
you off, but Chris, I haven't even tweeted, and I'm
already getting bounced. Good to have you back here, if
only for an hour.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Scott Voyes Mornings nine to eleven on News Radio eleven
ten kfab
Scott VORDIEZ.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Our conversation in this hour is going to be, well,
it's gonna be something else. It's gonna be something probably
a long time coming for many people. But it starts
off with some prefacing. I have to there's two moments
here in this conversation. I need to preface the conversation.
The second prefacing will happen a little bit later in
(00:25):
this conversation, which also talks more about why our guest
is here. The first bit of disclaimer is as follows,
four and a half years ago on this radio station,
there was a messy breakups sometimes happens in this business,
and there's not really anything I can say about that situation,
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what happened behind the scenes, what led to this or
this decision or whatever. As a member of management here
at News Radio eleven ten kfab and I heart me omaha,
there's just nothing I can get into on that. We
can speak though and allow our guests for the first
time in over four and a half years, to use
this radio station to speak to these listeners and this
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community about that situation. But there's just not a lot
I can say about it. So that's disclaimer number one.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
With that great song it is.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's a pleasure to welcome back here on news radio
eleven ten KFAB, our former afternoon host of about ten
years or so. But it's been a while, Chris Baker,
welcome back to the KFAB studios.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Well, thank you very much, Scott. It is. It's weird.
It's great to be here though, and I'm sure Jim
is very happy with all of the upgrades in the studio.
It's like twice the size.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yes, yeah, Well, the cocktail bar is coming along nicely.
It's not quite done yet. That margarita machine is going
to interfere with a lot of your live reads. People
are wondering if you and I are just going to
goof off in the next hour, or if we're going
to talk about why you're here, which we'll get to. Yeah,
but I know that you've been You've been living with
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something for the last several years, and I want to
give you an opportunity to address that you and this
radio station parted ways in April of twenty twenty one.
This is something that has loomed over all of us
since that point. The platform is yours.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Well, you've heard the commercials for gold Bonn and the
heartbreak of psariasis, and I have no I'm kidding. So
it's it's bizarre to me to be here because the
last time I was here, I knew this was that
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that was going to be the last time that I
was here because of what I refer to as the
tweet of death. And the best way to summarize this,
I think is Scott. You know, I've always talked about
this business. You know how much I love this business,
and I've always said this is a trapdoor industry. At
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any moment, that door can open and you're gone. That's
what we all live with. That's what I lived with
for over twenty years in the broadcast business. And you know,
my name came up, made a dumb mistake and the
hardest part of it. I mean, there's a lot of
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hard stuff about it, but it wasn't just how it
affected me, how it affected other people. It affected my kids.
You know, one of my kids got jumped at school.
You know how it affected my wife because she's a
teacher and all these teachers know what I do or
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what I did, so she spent a lot of time
having to explain it. And then one of the really
tough things is that when you're in the opinion business,
you're you're accustomed to having the arrow shot at you.
That's just part of the game. You develop a very,
very thick skin. But when I talked to clients, what
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they had to put up with was something that you know,
I really thought that that local other local media would
talk to me. They were all doing stories, but nobody
talked to me. Nobody came. I even called them, hey,
you are doing the story about me, and I'm right here.
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I don't have anything to do this afternoon, so we could,
we could talk, but they didn't. And I think, you know,
as an advertiser, if you think about it, at the time,
everybody was coming out of COVID businesses who had been
desperately trying to hang on keep their employees make a living.
(05:34):
They're starting to emerge from the COVID insanity. And then
next thing, you know, mister bonehead goofs up a tweet
and they're not used to that heat. I'm used to
the heat, right, but the advertisers of kfab are not
used to the heat. And so you know, that bothered me.
(05:59):
It's still bothers me. And you know, I wasn't gonna
say this because I do understand that there are people
who relished what happened. That was the This was the
perfect opportunity to do this, and I wasn't going to
talk about it, but I thought, you know what, I've
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always in this room. I've always been honest. I've always
been honest with the audience. But there is not a
day that goes by that on an hourly basis, I
relive that moment. I absolutely relive it. I remember, Josh
was where you are, Bird was sitting right here. They're
(06:43):
goofing around. In the meantime, I got Tony Connor doing
an interview and I goof up this stupid tweet, and
now I'm trying to figure out how to take it down,
and I'm asking Bird and Josh, well, they're busy goofing around,
and Bird and Josh so they don't even know what happened.
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And so and I relive it every day. I think
about it in the capacity of what would we be
doing now? And you know, I listened to Gary when
he made his announcement the other day, and which, by
the way, congratulations to him. I can gush over him
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all day and probably will as we talk. But I
think about it every day. I relive it every day.
I ask myself, if you just would have been paying attention,
why weren't you paying attention? And so that's something that
I'll probably never move past because the reality isn't I
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always said to the audience that since I was a
tiny little kid, maybe even as a fetus, I'm not
sure I wanted to be on the radio. But at
the same time, I'm really blessed because I did get
to be on the radio, and I got to do
some of the greatest things. You and I have made
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tremendous radio over the years, which I'm sure will hopefully rehash.
But as I was, you know, preparing for today, I
realized that, first of all, at least half of my
radio career, between Levington, KFAB and k CAR and the Edge,
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half of my radio career has been right here in Omaha, Nebraska.
And you add that to when I used to come
through town at the Funny Bone, killing by the way,
at the Funny Bone, of course, just killing, just killing.
You know, this town has been a major part of
my life. My wife is from here. We're still married.
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Despite some people won't mention any names who were publicly
rooting for our divorce. Oh, it's.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I apologize for that.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Well, you've always had a thing for her. Let me,
it's funny, you know, it's funny. Hi, Lucy, good to
see you, Chris. I was going to bring Lucy some
glazed croissants, but I couldn't find it. Yeah, but I
opened up the conversation with him was, yes, I know
I haven't seen you in a while. I got fat.
Let's just get that right out of there.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well on, everyone stop it, let me let me try
and reset here. Yes, because there'll be some people who
are listening who have no idea what we're talking about.
With as you refer to the tweet of death Chris Baker,
Chris Baker's with us, a former longtime Afternoon host here
on eleven ten kfab messy breakup four and a half
(09:46):
years ago, and at the root of that was a
tweet that was described by some people, and this came
through in various media outlets as a quote racist tweet.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I received no fewer than eighty seven trillion emails about
you really since since that time. Oh, there's one that
sticks out, and I want to give you a chance
to address It came from a listener and I don't
remember her name, but she said, I've been listening to
this radio station and you guys and loving Chris's show
for years. I'm black, and I see what people are
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saying right now, and I see the tweet, and I'm
wondering if my affinity for Chris was all based on
a lie. Is Chris Baker racist?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Most people who would call me that, regardless of what
I did or said, would would never change that opinion.
But I mean, let's just let's be honest. You know, no,
absolutely not. And I think, you know, in my time
here on the radio, I was, I think one of
the only people in town that was true in to
(11:01):
remind people of multiple multiple murders where there were one
hundred people there but apparently no witnesses, you know. And
if you look at my radio career, of all the
years I was on the radio, this the tweet of
death is the only thing right. And that's been my
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biggest frustration, or one of them, is that I've been
able to do so many great things and the you know,
but it's all summed up in a dumb tweet that
was really, you know, an accident. But but let me
I'll tell you a quick story. When you do talk radio,
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you there are certain stories and certain callers that never
go away from you. You never ever forget them. And
there's one story out of Houston, and there was a
girl named Tanishus Stewart, and I talked about it here
(12:07):
on my show. Tanisha Stewart was a girl who grew
up in a really really rough neighborhood. And but she
stayed focused and she went to school. She did her homework,
she did all the right things. She got a full
ride scholarship to Texas A and M, which is an
amazing engineering school, and so here she was. She goes
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to Texas A and M. And so she came home
during a break and being the person that she is,
and if anybody wants to look this story up, go ahead.
Her name's Tanisha Stewart in Houston, Texas. She went to
go went to her old boyfriend who was a guy
with a not a not a great guy, and went
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to tell him we're I'm we're breaking up because I'm
going to college. I'm going this direction and you're not.
And so instead of you know, texted him or instead
of calling him, she went and talked to him. Well,
it didn't go over well. So he murdered her. And
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if there's any kids in the car, you probably don't
want to hear these details, but they're important. He murdered her.
He I'll give you a minute to turn down the radio. Okay.
He murdered her. He dismembered her, and he cooked her,
and he smashed her, you know, he smashed her and
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destroyed all of her remains. There was a guy named
quantel X in Houston and he was the head of
the AM I late for the break. I see you
getting answered, all right, I'll finish well, let me do this, okay.
So so quantel X, I always really liked Quantell and
I don't know if he really liked me that much,
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but we did. It'd always get along quant Lex's New
Black Panther party. So after that story came out, there's
a lot of stuff to a but Kwanell and Harri's
County Sheriff Tommy Thomas were working together to not let
a lot of these details go out publicly until this
guy went on trial. But the bottom line was, this
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girl's mother never got to bury her. Her remains are
no telling where they're scattered or whatever. So that bothered me.
It bothered me a lot still does today. And so
this is the kind of guy that I am. I
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felt that what she had done with her life meant
something and that the kids who grew up and lived
in that same neighborhood they should know about this. So
I went to some people in Austin, Texas and in
Harris County, and I was trying to lobby that. I
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was on the radio at the time, and so I
was trying to lobby them to name a school after
her right name, name the Tanisia Stewart Elementary or Junior whatever.
And you know, nobody cared it was they were, you know,
basically the way that I interpreted it was that, well,
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she's just another dead black girl. And so I talked
with Kwanell about it a lot, and he and I
we hatched a a strategy and we were trying and
me mostly I was trying to get a school named
after her because I felt that if they would have
named a school after her, when these kids would go
in that school and they would know her story and
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they would know or at least see, you know what,
maybe I can take that, Maybe I can shoot my shot.
So if I'm a racist, why am I working with
a guy from the New Black Panther to get a
school named after a girl because of what that girl
did all on her own. I didn't know her. I
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just knew of her. But there are so many stories
like that that they always stick with me. And you know,
I'm not trying to give the old Oh you don't
I got a lot of friends or whatever. I'm just
telling you that you can't. You know, you can't sit
here and tell me I'm some kind of stupid racist
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when I see these stories constantly, and in my new position, right,
the same thing happens every day in what I do now,
same thing happens every day. So you know that's what
I would say. Well, ma'am, if you can ever get
Quantel on the phone, I'm sure he would say something
nice about me. He was really cool too. I love
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quante Lex.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I've known you for a very long time. You're one
of the biggest reasons why I'm in radio. I started
off in this business as your intern call screener in
nineteen ninety six, and I still remember that first day.
In all of the days that follows, I have seen
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you watch the news at night and see a kid
get his bike stolen, and the next day you're calling
the news where does this kid live? And you're delivering
that kid a bike. When my window air conditioning unit
from my apartment, I was moving to a different apartment,
didn't need it anymore, and you're like, I know a
family who could use this. We took it over to
their house. There was a young man who was moving
(17:38):
from juvenile delinquency into trying to get a foothold on employment,
but he didn't have a ride, and you woke up
every morning and took this kid to work. I still
talk it shouldn't matter that these are people of color,
but they are you left out though. Yeah, I've never
seen you do anything nice for white people, That's what
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I'm saying. No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
What I tried today to bring Lucy.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, but you didn't.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, you and I have known each other a long time,
and the accusations that speak to your character I've always
stood up for and always will.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, you're very kind.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Now we get to the next phase of this conversation,
and that is you know why you're here along with
disclaimer number two, and we'll get to that after a
Fox News update in just a moment, our guest in
the studio for the first time in about four and
a half years on this radio station is Chris Baker.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Scott for News Radio eleven ten key F a.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Former afternoon host, Chris Baker. We've addressed some of that
which led to the messy breakup, the tweet of death.
As Chris called it, it's time to move in a
different direction. But before we get to the answer, why
is Chris here? We have a segment on this radio
station we call moonbat Email. Yeah, yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Excellent. I didn't know about this. This is great. This
is a great bib. You know the mayor would come
in and sing with this James author.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, she I remember. I remember the first time she
was sitting here and she's like, do I really have
to do moonbat email? Hue, we missed the thing along
fart oh Man, Well maybe next time. Really, the only
thing we have here from several listeners is they want
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to hear you say two things just so they can
feel whole this morning. They need to hear you read
the beginning of every moonbat email. And they also have
a request for you to work in the word diversity.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Oh well, uh yeah, well, first of all, moonbat email.
I dearly miss the moonbat email. But I got a
lot of moonbad email, and it would always be crious
and it would always be something nasty like they got
ridy you. Yeah, we'll have maybe Camfeeb'll move into a
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more deveraction. We'll have diversity on the airwaves. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, that is fulfilling the requests of several members of
kfab nation this morning. You know, can I do music
to their errors and absolute just to smash of the
years of the people who hate your guts?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Yeah, that's fine. You know. First of all, I have
to say this. Gary came in right just to say hello,
and it's just great to see Gary. I'm not really
a smoker, but when I worked here, Lucy, I don't
know if you know this, but I would always go
outside and smoke cigarettes with Gary, just the smoker. Yeah yeah, well,
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I mean it was it was just it was like
it was a nice hang, you know, out there with
Gary talking you know stuff. And and Gary of course
announces his retirement and we were just talking about it.
I think with Gary's retirement and the and the outpouring
of of of just all these people you know sometimes
(21:26):
in the world of radio, and I really started looking
at all this from the outside once I was no
longer in it. But people just don't realize how many
lives you touch. And Gary's a great example. There are
people that have only known Gary on KFAB. He grew
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up with them. You know. I got into talk radio
because basically Rush Limbaugh was one of my one of
the big reasons because when I traveled as a comic
killing around the country. I don't know if I've ever
mentioned that, but you're alone and that the host is
your passenger in your car, and even sometimes you talk
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to him. So Gary, and this is one of the
things I always loved about coming to work here because
this is a station that's not just a radio station.
This station is a major part of this community and
the longevity of the host on this station. It allows
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this bond between host, radio station and audience to be
and I mean, I hate being cliche, but it's like
a family. And I will guarantee you now I can
remember when like I miss Rush because I would first
of all, I would love to be doing talk radio
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with everything going on, it is so insane.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Anything you want to say about the Biden administration that
you kind of missed out on.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
You know what, he's coming, He's coming to town by
the Way for a speech, and I was thinking it'd
be cheaper just to bring the auto pin right there.
You go, thank you. But Gary, I always saw him.
He was kind of He's always been kind of the
conscience of the community. If it went on in Omaha, Nebraska,
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I know a lot of people came to find out
what did Gary think? What did Jim think? And they go, ah, whatever,
and then I'm kidding, and what did Scott think? And
what does Lucy think?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Don't fool me with all of your gushing about this
radio station as a guy who when we worked at
the competition for kfab uh, you used to take regular
gratuitous shots at Tom Beca and we used to prank
Charlie and Mary on this radio.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah, so don't fool me with it. Well that was fun.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Look, we're gonna run out of time if we don't
get to its. Chris Baker, what is it that you're
doing here?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
So as a radio blowhard for years I have you're
gonna have to have me back on so we can
keep doing this. But anyway, you have to do a
ton of research in this business. And I have spent
years doing research and watching what I've always referred to
as cycles, cycles of society, cycles of human behavior, cycles
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of political decisions and agendas. And the other part is
that as a radio host, I have always had a
real finger on the pulse of the audience. Well, now
I work at the courthouse and that's what I do.
I deal with people all day, every day, and it's
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eye opening. I mean it's so eye opening. And I
remember back in twenty eighteen, in twenty nineteen, when they
were talking about building the new Juvi Justice Center and
it was going to be great and we're gonna have
all these magic programs and the children are to behave themselves.
None of that happened. They spent twenty seven million dollars
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just on this Juvi Justice Facility that to this day
is empty. There is no one in there. That's twenty
seven million dollars of your money, right. And what got
this really started was when I noticed my house payment
(25:29):
had exploded. And so the wife and I are talking
about it, and I'm looking at how it happened, and
it's it's much higher taxes and I know that you
know where I'm all right, So here's the deal. I'm
gonna run for county board. All right. I've done so
much research on all of this, but I Chris Baker
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radio Blowhard, former radio Blowhard, I have decided that I
want to run for Douglas County Board in District six
to replace Marianne Borgenson, who has been there for thirty years. Okay,
and they, I believe have They've made some incredible mistakes.
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And the Juvi Justice Center, I believe in things need
to be tangible so people can really see what's up.
The juv Justice Center is. It is an incredible mess.
They spent twenty seven million dollars of your money and
that building it's been open for what three years now
or something hadn't been open. Well it is open. Oh
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oh get ready, it's open and it is now costing
the Douglas County taxpayer a minimum of twenty thousand dollars
a month to keep the building open, as if they're
going to put anybody in there in the first place.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
It's open, it's not doing anything.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
No, it's just sitting there and there is a guy
they pay to walk around turn the lights on and
off and flush the turlets.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
But Chris, they say that we don't need more space
for juvenile crime and juvenile justice as these kids it's
not really causing that big of a problem in our community.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Well, let's see, they just indicted another fourteen year old
with murder within the last week and a half. You know,
the idea of finding ways to get kids to stop
committing crimes, I agree with one hundred percent. I'm right there.
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I think it would be fantastic. But as I've done
my research, we have spent a fortune on things like
counseling and you know, early intervention and all this other
kind of stuff. Well, I want to be a member
of the County Board for a couple of reasons. Number one,
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I want to put new eyes on the needs of
Douglas County. The second thing I want to do is
I want to get that juv Justice center up and running.
One way or another, whether we are we're having kids there,
or whether we lease out that space to the FEDS
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or maybe the state. The Feds you'll get more money.
But this is a great injustice to the Douglas County
taxpayer for you to just you spend this money. You
build this big building, you build this facility, and then
you don't do anything with it. And then the other
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thing that I've seen in my research, and I've done
tons of it, You don't mean, Scott. I'm a research
maniac NonStop. So when they came up with their budget
to build this GV Justice Center, they came up with
a budget to build it so that they could at
least the way I look at it, so they could
sell it to you the public. They didn't budget to
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operate it.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
We are going to We're going to do two things here.
I'm going to actually take our quarter hour break as
opposed to last hour, and I got to get to
disclaimer number two as we talk more now with Chris Baker,
who just announced his run for Douglas County Board here
on eleven ten, Kfab one more segment with Chris, next,
Scott Voice, our guests in the studio. Chris Baker, Chris'
(29:34):
former host here on Kfab, just a moment ago, announced
he's running for Douglas County Board. Disclaimer number two. You
and I have been friends since we were both little fetuses. Yes,
and I'm proud to say we're still friends today. That said,
when we have politicians, which you now are, thank you
here on the studio. We have good conversations, we have
(29:57):
fun conversations, but I don't look good into cheer er
leader's outfit. I don't root for anybody you're running against
Mary Anne Borgson, She's been there for a long time,
thirty year. I've had pointed things to say about her.
I've invited her on the program. She's always welcome here.
You're also running in a field that has Colleen Brennan,
who I'm also proud to call a friend. She's been
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on before, and she's already carved out of time to
be on next Tuesday. And I'm not going to have
the two of you guys on every single week. Hey, Hey,
she was on. I'm just good. You know, there's a
lot to talk about in this race. So why is
it that, I mean, you already went through some of
the reasons you want to run on the Douglas County Board.
For a lot of people, though, they say, look, what
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are you guys going to do to bring down my
property taxes? What is the function of the board and
what do you see as an ability to do that
and take it easy on taxpayers? If you were a
member of this commission.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Well, the board is not necessarily controlling your taxes. They
do levies and that kind of stuff. Now, I'm not
going to try to make a bunch of promises. All
I'm going to make every day is going to be
seventy two and sonny, and I'm also going to try
not to ever use the word fight.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
But what I believe that I can do is I
can bring a new vision to the county board. And
I love talking about things that are tangible. The Juvi
Justice Center was designed and built by Marianne Borgenson was
in charge of it with through a nonprofit, and also
(31:31):
the Sherwood Foundation was part of it. The Sherwood Foundation
got a bunch of press because they pledged ten million bucks. Okay,
and guess what, they never gave it. They never gave
the money. It was five million for the magic programs,
which to their credit, they have spent on magic programs.
(31:52):
But the five million for construction, they just never never
gave it to them, right, And they said, well, we're
not because it's not opening. Well, if you gave them
the five mil, they could open. They also did some
really interesting things. The commissioners with COVID money. They started
(32:13):
giving them out to pet Project local nonprofits. There was
a Dollhouse museum in northeast Omaha that received a bunch
of money. This at a time now when Mary Ewing
is like, hey, does anyone have canned food? People need
food in this community. Snap benefits are apparently on the
shelf right now. During the government shutdown, Sheriff Aaron Hanson
(32:35):
has said this board needs to re engage with immigration
Customs Enforcement to allow them to detain those criminal illegal
immigrants and get paid by the federal government to do so. Yes,
they had done so until September of twenty twenty one.
Now they don't, and they just voted that they're not
going to do it anymore. Well, and let's look at
the reason that they voted now, and this also has
(32:56):
been a big pet peeve of mine, is that people
get elected and then they forget that they're elected to
govern and not rule. So I read a lot of
the comments from the board and it was, well, we
don't believe in repres you arresting our neighbors, and we
believe the best path forward is to push for comprehensive
(33:19):
immigration reform, which in reality is just a blanket amnesty.
But also that's four years down the road. You're not
going to get that now. You're not going to get
that during this administration. And you're a county board member.
Your job is not to manage the immigration. Your job
is to make sure that the taxpayer of Douglas County
(33:44):
gets their money's worth, that offices like the sheriff are
are funded to the level they need to be funded.
And I believe that why would I go in there
and do something? First of all, it'd be a different perspective. Well,
I want to answer that here with one minute to
go with Chris Baker. Here, kid me, this is how,
(34:05):
this is how it goes. Dude, you've never done this before.
So you got a minute here to respond to people
to say, like, all right, you're talking, don't talk like
a politician. And you've got a lot of history and
social media posts that will come back and in this
campaign tell people why they should consider you for Duglas
County Board and where they can go for more information.
(34:26):
All right, Uh, The Chris Baker website Chris Baker for
Douglas County Board dot com is the website and it
is under construction. I had a little bank problem. You
know what, unbelievable, Scott, A technological problem. But I got
that figured out. So we'll have it all finished up
very soon anyway, probably later today. But why me? Because
(34:47):
I know more about illegal immigration than anybody in this town.
You know that, all right, I can talk about it.
Second of all, I believe that those people are humans,
And my entire radio career I've said and I've talked
about the abuses. I've talked about the horrible things they
go through. But in reality, what I believe is that
the Douglas County taxpayer needs a voice in that boardroom
(35:12):
and needs a voice on those County Board votes. And
you know, the members of the County Board are not stupid,
They're not bad people. They're accomplished people. I believe I
can work with them to serve the Douglas County Board.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
We will have more members yet the people of Douglas County.
We will have more conversation. And I'm sorry to cut
you off, but Chris, I haven't even tweeted, and I'm
already getting bounced. Good to have you back here, if
only for an hour.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
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