May 6, 2026 • 25 mins
Ooh-de-Lally in Dundee is more than a restaurant, as you will find in this conversation here. Then, Jimmy Failla joins us one more time before his Omaha comedy show this weekend. Finally, Council Bluffs opts to send their homeless problem west across Bob the Bridge.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right here on news radio eleven ten KFAB Lucy Chapman there,
I'm Scott Borhees's introduce you to the director of Community
Voice and Partnerships with a fairly new restaurant here been
out operation for a couple of years. Now Here in
Dundee off of fiftieth and Underwood, just about six blocks
or so north of fiftieth and Dodge, you'll find Uda Lali,
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a delightful name, and we've got the delightful aforementioned director
of Community Voice and Partnerships with Udalali here in the studio,
LaRue Marcos. Welcome to eleven ten KFA B. Thank you,
thank you for having me and officially I know it's
I'm a little late in doing this, but welcome to
the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Absolutely, you guys.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
A lot of people still call it, oh, it's the
old marks uh huh here, but it's a new restaurant.
But as much as we'll talk about, you know, lunch
and dinner specials and all that kind of stuff, here,
it's not so much restaurant stuff. I want to focus on.
It's the focus of Udo Lali, Why it started, who
would employ and your story as well, So why did
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this restaurant start and why does it take the why
does it have the mission that it does to help
the recently incarcerated in our community?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
A great question.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
The mission of the restaurant overall is where we are
trying to reduce the receptivism rates here in the state
of Nebraska. Nebraska has one of the highest incarceration rates
per capital and then also the highest receptivism rates. To
put some perspective on it, sixteen hundred people gets released
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from Nebraska's in prison systems or facilities every year. Out
of those sixteen hundred, eleven hundred of those people will
return within the next three years.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Why do you think that is?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
They don't have They lack the resources, They lack the
community welcome being welcomed back by the community. They don't
get access to housing, they don't get access to education,
they don't get access to livable employment.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
There's jobs that to hire them, but not enough.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
They won't pay them enough because they have that felony
letter that on their jacket. And it's unfortunate. But a
lot of people are not treating them, the previously incarcerated
population as people, but they are.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, it's it's obviously it's tough. There are some businesses like, look,
I'm not sure if we're going to give you access
to people's banking records and so forth. But at the
same time, if if the idea is you have paid
your debt to society and you can prove to somebody,
I'm not that guy anymore. I love it when businesses
give people a chance, which is really what the croux
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of this restaurant business is all ab us the lifestyle
opportunity to give people a chance. So how many people
are you able to employ there at Udali right now?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
We are about forty three forty four total staff. I
think out of those staff, I think about thirty six
thirty seven our participants in our Jumpstar program, our second
Chance I'm Hiring program.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So yeah, is this something where people get out and
then they hear about Uda Lali and then come over
and apply for a job or are you already kind
of working with them and identifying who would be a
good fit both ways and while they're still incarcerated to
be able to tell them you have hope, you've got
something to go to when you get out.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Absolutely great question. So we we partner with Metro one
to eight re Entry.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
That's the largest largest re entry program in the nation
right here in Omaha, Nebraska.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
They do a lot of our vetting process.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
They work directly with the incarcerated individuals because some people
have like one foot in and one foot out, so
that means that they're probably at the work release program
or they're on parole or probation, and so they still
are connected to They're still part of the state or
still part of the system, and so they do the
vetting process and make sure that the people that they're
sending a will fit and will work and also desire
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and want to become something new and change and get
their lives together. We also have a community base thing,
meaning like I've I was a participant in the program
once upon a time, and I've graduated the program, worked
my way up, and now I work in the administration.
I can recommend somebody, like if somebody calls me like, hey, bruh,
I really need help. I really want to get you know,
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take care of my children, like how I can my word?
The community word also is a factor in how we
hire as well.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Is how infuriating is it to just ask someone who
works there or like I'm about to ask you like, oh,
were you in jail?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
What did you do? Is that? Is that super infuriating?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Because if so, then I'll retrack the question and then
find a nicer way to ask the same thing.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So the the what did you do part never gets asked.
The uh were you or were you in prison before?
Is a is a common question? Is a common theme
around there? So were you in prison before? Were you
in prison before? And I have no problem sharing my
story or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
What's the what's the short version of your story? LaRue?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
A short version of the.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Story would be I come from a background where there
was a lack of resources. I grew up in Northeast Omaha,
single mom, five children. My story is not unique at
all in any way. This is the story of that area.
I just get to tell minds.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But just.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Having no identity, Uh so you try to join certain
organizations or groups.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
And when I say that, I mean like gangs and.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Uh community clicks and stuff like that in order to
like have an identity, to belong to something. So the
lack of identity, the lack of fathering, the lack of
being having access to proper education.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
There's a liquor store.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
In every corner and the communities I grew up in.
So just the energy and just everything. You know, you
are the environment and we've if you live in Omaha
or North Omaha, you know what that environment looks like.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, well, let me sound like your mom for a second.
And that's that is you got brothers and sisters grew
up the same way you did. They're not in jail.
There's a lot of other people on this block grew
up the same way you did. They're not in jail.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
They are all My brothers and sisters are so and
have been too so, I mean, and there's a lot
of people that the statistics if you look at their
Prison Policy Initiative, which is a nonprofit organization that tracks
records all across the nation for incarceration race. The statistics
that sols Nebraska records, it's like one in every sixteen
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black man will be incarcerated in this state. And so
that is a real statistic. So my brothers and sisters
are in jail.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, that maybe a topic for a different conversation. We
gotta bring your mom into this. Yes the way, talking
here with LaRue Marcos ood Lali Restaurant off fiftieth and Underwood,
just north of fiftieth and Dodge. This is a place
where I think a lot of people understand the idea
behind the restaurant, the fact that there are a lot
of people who've been in jail how recently? Like can
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someone get out yesterday and be washing dishes today? Like
how long is that process?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
So? So yes, the thing is when they're still connected.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
So if they're at the work release program and all
of that, technically they're still incarcerated.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
When they leave work, they go back to the facility.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
So yes, to answer your question, but like getting straight out,
if a person come in and wants a job, we
will direct them to Metro and say, hey, go there,
fill out the application, sign up for their workshops, and
they will do a vetting process and make sure that
this is a good fit.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
How do you then manage the expectations of a legion
of guilty white people, just to put that that fine
point on it. They want to go in there, and
they want to be able to tell their friends we
went there. It was great food, and we had someone
who spent time in jail for cannibalism as our waiter,
and he was great who knew just what we should
eat and he said, I had really nice arm. You
(08:00):
know whatever, Sorry, I don't know. This show is ridiculous,
but they want, you know, to be waited on and
have someone making their food who's incarcerated because they feel
that that makes them great. But at the same time,
they're like, I'm not going to give you my credit card.
I got cash right now because they don't fully trust
the situation. Do you see that in people's faces when
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they come there to eat?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
No, I haven't seen that yet. And and and.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
That's the positive acceptance and feedback that we get right
here in Dundee, which I mean, this is the perfect spot,
one of the most diverse communities I've ever been in
this city. It's so welcoming and it's needed everywhere else.
I don't get that. We don't get that at all.
We get so much support, so much love, and people
are they believe in the mission and they want to
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support the mission.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
In addition to the restaurant, you guys are also looking
now at housing for people, another big issue. Where you're
gonna live, where you're gonna work, what are you going
to do? What's the rest of your life's gonna look like?
You're trying to check a lot of those boxes for people,
for those who really appreciate the mission that the Udo
Lali World is now providing to our community. How can
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they help Mark LaRue you're talking about far as the
housing part, Yeah, how can they give you a whole
bunch of money to help not just the restaurant obviously
to go in there and eat, but also for the
housing part.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
So the housing part is one of the things that
I advocate more for the most out of everything. You
can give somebody a job all day long, Pam fifty
bucks an hour, But if he has to go back
to an environment because he can't get accepted in his
own home where there's lines on the table and you know,
fighting and drugs and guns and all kinds of crazy
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stuff that goes on in those areas, he's going to
reset about. He's going to go back because he's in
an environment that is basically adding that on. So housing
is definitely one of the biggest factors that I advocate for,
and we definitely go we went into housing.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
We just opened up a sober.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Living home right here on Underwood and Dundee that's going
to house seven people, seven participants. That's going to go
through our program, so we'll be able to monitor vet
everybody going.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Through the process.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
That is a gateway to get in your own place, right.
We're going to start here and we're going to work
as a team. We're going to work your job. We're
going to pay three months of your rent upfront, you
know what I mean, so you can start saving your money.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Up and learn how to build your credit things.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
We're doing all of that financial literacy, all of that
through the Metro one Eddy program, and then when they're able,
they don't have to leave in three months, when they're
ready and they want to go. We're expanding our house
and we have housed about twelve people in apartments in
homes across the city, including myself.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I've been housed.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I have a four bedroom, three and a half bathroom
that takes care of me and my children and it's lovely,
best house I've ever.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Been in, and I'm very grateful for it.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
That in itself is incentive for me to never do
anything stupid again. I have a home, I have children
in it. When you don't have that, then you're in
and if it's to.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Go get that.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You guys are putting in the work exactly website people
can go to for more information.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yes, So you can go to how many o's are in?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Oh two o's that the that the preferred You're you're right,
You're you're corrected. Oh oh h d E L A
L L Y dot org dot org, or just go
to the restaurant.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
You can talking about Google Yah be a dot com
it is.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I'm looking out for you here, uh for for those
who want to go in there and eat though, promote
that restaurant lunch, dinner specials Monday morning, Sunday morning brunch.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
What do we got if you going in on lunch,
get the Vermicelli salad fire It's so gassed.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Vermicelli solid is so fired.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I'm always going to promote that our lobster row is
the best lobster role in the city of Omaha. I
haven't been to a lot of places in Nebraska, but
I will say in Omaha that lobster role is top tier,
top notch, and I mean everything like we we I've
been We've been told by many of our guests that
y'all make it so hard like we have our you know,
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salmon croquettes and just it's everything's super good. So I
would say lunch Vermicelli, sit outside on a patio next
to some flowers underneath the umbrellas.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Uh, doing dinner, Get a lobster role.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, that that little upstairs, the little patio area really really nice.
I just love the idea that someone was incarcerated recently
eating what in jail? What are they eating?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Oh god, Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
It's not lobster rolls and salmon croquettes?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Is its mystery?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Me?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Is what we call it.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Suddenly they're out going lobster roles. And I just I
love the idea of this, and I love that you're
concerned about the quality of the food and the the uh,
the experience people get when they come there and eat.
And I know that this can expand and do more
for people who have paid their debt to society to
decrease those ricidibus some rates for the incarcerated population of
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our community. LaRue Marcos of Udlali, thank you very much
for what you're doing here for our community. Thanks for
coming in and tell us about it today.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Absolutely thank you for having me a.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
News update in just a moment. Jimmy Fayla from Fox
News coming to town here this Saturday and joins us
next Scott News Radio eleven ten kfab welcoming back. I'm
very sad about this one more time before he's here
in Omaha on Saturday night and then never calls into
the show again, forgets all about us, doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It's it's Jimmy Fayla.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Hello, Jimmy, Holy heck, laying it on me.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Hey, I don't take breakups. Well.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
I'm a break I will tell you this.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Anna break up with you before you break up with me.
I just I'll just feel better. And after today you
can't after we go see you on Saturday night, you
can't come on the show ever again until you're back
in town.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Holy hek. All right, listen, man, I'm pretty low maintenance
when it comes to breakups. Like I'm not going to
like boil the bunny or anything like that. U. So
I'm just gonna take this in stride, and I guess
try to go forth in my life. I don't know
what to tell you, but Saturday night, I guess you
know what did Bob Seger sing we got tonight? Who
(14:21):
needs tomorrow? I guess for us, this is our Bob
Segert moment, Yes we got tonight man.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, And a lot of people don't know that. When
he sang that, he was talking about a comedy show
at the Astro Theater in La Vista featuring Jimmy Fayla,
Fox News host comedian with the Everybody Calm Down Tour.
Go to a ticketmaster and get tickets for this show
this Saturday night at the Astro in Lavista. Let's go
(14:47):
back to relationships here, Jimmy, are you generally have you
generally been the person who would break up with someone
or would you always get broken.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Up with I mean, you know, all honesty, most of
the people I was with I was the women I
was paying them, So it wasn't really a breakup. It
was more, you know, transactional. You leave the money on
the night stand and away they go.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, yeah, you know how that worked.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
And you know, for the most part, I was pretty
lucky in love. I guess because whatever conversational acumen I possess,
I have had since I was five. So if I
guess funny or I could talk on TV, whatever that is,
I really had that when I was five. So people
who know me don't look at this like I'm some
type of rising star in media, they see this as
(15:34):
the sand decline of a former child prodigy. Okay, so
it just depends how long you know me for. But
if you knew me when I was five, you're kind
of underwhelmed by all of it.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So how did that manifest itself in kindergarten? It's like,
all right, does anyone else want to try and answer
this question other than Jimmy who's in the front row
waving his arm.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I know, I know the answer to this question.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Yeah, I told a lot of Joe class. I had
a for real, I had a fifth grade teacher, missus Pascana,
that made me go home and watch the tonight show
because she wanted to talk to me about it. And
the next day she said, hey, I may just stay
up and watch that because I really think you could
host one of those shows some day. And again, she
might have just felt bad because she saw my report
card and realized I had no other options in life,
(16:21):
but like she did say that to me, and like,
you know, you believe teachers at that age, so like
I was in and that like I'm probably doing this
because that woman who was also sending me to summer
school thought I could host the tonight show. And I
was like, well, maybe she's right.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I don't know so good.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
We're not doing bad.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well, it's Fox across America, Fox News Saturday Night did
the tonight show.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It's all the same thing.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Uh. That is I love stories about being influenced by
teachers in a good way, and that is that's an
awesome story.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
So did you ever get a chance to tell her
how much she influenced you?
Speaker 5 (16:58):
You know what? Yeah, she saw me to talking about
her on TV. I was filling in on the five
like three years ago, and I dropped her name on
TV and she found me on Facebook and then I
had her to one of my shows like a year ago.
She was at a taping of Fox New Saturday Night
in the audience and everyone gave her a big ovation
and I was like, no, don't clap. This b word
(17:19):
sent me to summer school and everyone last.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, I thought she was going to say, look, I
am a big il han Omar voter. Don't blame me
for this. I don't want to be tied into Fox News.
How about il han Omar? The when World War eleven?
Is there any fodder there for you, I'm guessing, well, yeah, she's.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
You know, there's a little bit of a Roman numeral
issue there. Like I'd hate to break it to her,
but Rocky did Night did Dot fight Apollo for the
eleventh time in Rocky two. That was a rematch. You know,
I think she's getting to the bottom of the bottom
up right now. I thought that was fantastic. I love
all of this, the fact that you know, the income
(18:02):
statement went from you know, sixty six thousand to thirty
million back to whatever she's telling us it is now.
And it's it's fascinating because when you hear illan Omar talk,
you know, you understand why Democrats believe women aren't smart
enough to figure out voter I d You know, they
always say, if we have voter ID laws, married women
(18:23):
can't figure it out. First of all, of course they cant, yes,
my wife changed her name in five seconds after we
got married. She's trying to change it again after last
week's TV show. But put the point, when you hear
like a Mazy Herono or an illan Omar, you go, oh,
I see why democrats talk down to women. They think
they're all like.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
This, Yeah, no, that's perfect and This is the kind
of thing you can expect. You've influenced me and inspired
me to do a couple of things this weekend. Jimmy
is go see you at the Astro in La Vista
on Saturday night. And when I get a chance, I'm
going to watch Rocky take on Cluver Lang and Rocky
one hundred and less.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
It's gonna be a great You're gonna love it, man.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, I got the.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Stammina, but look at him.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Go go to Ticketmaster or go right up to the
box office. Then no guarantee that tickets will still be available.
This will sell out this Saturday night at the Astro
seven o'clock. Jimmy Fayla from Fox News the Everybody Calm
Down Tour. Loved the name of it. We'll see you
on Saturday. Jimmy Save Travels coming to here to Omaha
(19:26):
rock and Roll.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Thanks man, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Jimmy Fayla from Fox News Right here on Fox News
Affiliate eleven to ten Kfab.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Scott Bodies, where you're going, Jean.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Starter in the Kfab comment line coming up here. You
got kind of a spicy conversation coming up on your show.
I think we'll we'll talk about We'll talk about that
here in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Here.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Let me uh, I gotta get back on time. Short
segment here, because we had Jimmy Fayla on a moment ago.
And one thing that when she was remember Lucy, Uh
when Jean, what does she do before she was a
radio host?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I heard she was into politics or something.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
She was the mayor.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I did know that he was the mayor.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
And one of the things about which I gave her
grief during her tenure. I'm gonna talk to you and
not look over to my right see and see her
glaring at me was her homeless services coordinator and council Bluffs.
They just had a big conversation about this. Sorry, I
just looked over to the right, eyes of death. Eyes
(20:28):
of death over there, and council Bluffs. The new mayor,
whose name is I can.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Never remember her name, some.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
A very lovely woman.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Her name is not in this this news story I'm
looking at. I thought i'd look down and see it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
You don't need to know me by anything other than mayor.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I want to say Jill Shaddick or something like that.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I'm not arguing.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Sorry, you just got elected, do something. If I don't
remember your name, that's not my fault, that's yours. Do something.
But now they're talking about how they have more of
a homeless issue in Council Bluffs and new mayor who
still has that new mayor smell. And I know because
that's what Joe Biden told me. UH wants to have
(21:19):
a homeless services coordinator to work.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Out of her office.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And the council said, I don't know if that's a
great idea, because when some area towns have a homeless
services coordinator, it seems like there's more homeless that go
there because you've got a coordinator going out in the
streets saying, oh, let's take care of you baby, Let's
give you this, and like to make sure you have
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that and all the rest of those things here. And
so then you have more homeless going, Hey, we've got
services being coordinated for us over here. And Counsel Bluff said,
let's let Omaha take care of that. You know what
Counsel Bluff should do with the homeless us point them
across the Bob Carrey Pedestrian Bridge and go go west,
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and we don't want you here.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
And so the mayor of Council Bluffs. What's her name?
I'm trying to I'll turn your microphone on.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
I'm blanking too.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I thought you were looking it up, mayor, to.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Look it up.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I was right, Jill Shattick shot shoot act. That's almost right, Jill,
Jill shoot act. May beloved Mayor Council Bluffs, renowned.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Mayor. I think I'm proud.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
New she's brand new, so she might be beloved eventually.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And don't be offended, Mayor shoot Act. I only just
finally learned Matt Walsh's name because, uh, you know, we
had Mayor for life, Tom hanafin there for a million years.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yes we did.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
So that's sorry.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I know you get jealous and you hear about mayors
who go out on their own power. You are, But
Council Bluffs seems to be saying, send the homeless over
to Omaha.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Let it be their problem. You know.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
The last count in time that HUD did, which they
do at every January, the last address of the the
unsheltered on the majority was Council Bluffs.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Do the unsheltered live next to the homeless? What do
you mean they unsheltered are homeless?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Okay, well I just didn't know were I figured there
are some people say if we use different softer sounding terms,
then the problem doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
There are sheltered, sheltered homeless.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Okay, yeah, and they don't care what you call them.
Council Bluffs is like, let's call them omahans. Send them
over the bridge. That's why they were doing another pedestrian bridge.
We need another bridge more. There's so many homeless go
over there.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Wait, did you just say let's call them omahan's.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yep, they that's what they say in cbe the guest
you have on your show here coming up in twelve minutes.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Yeah, I have a great guest. I have Tony Connor
coming on. Tony Connor is a is an Omaha police officer.
Still he's a sergeant. He is also president of the
Nebraska State Fraternal Order of Police and he is also
a former president of Omaha Police Officers Association.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
So when when you're the mayor, you're the boss of
the town. He's the union president for the police. You
guys are real chummy. You get along real well.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Did he have good things to say about you?
Speaker 6 (24:32):
It's a love hate relationship, it really is. And Tony
and I have that relationship. So we are hot and
cold with each other.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well, what temperature will we be turning things up?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Well, it will be nice and warm and fuzzy. Today
we have lots, we have lots to talk about.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
That's no fun. It'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I'm try and get him all wound up before he
gets started. Okay, you do that, hey, Tony, Great to
have you in here. Jane just said that she suggested
to her good friend Mayor Johnny that the fire department
get a five percent raise and the guys in the
blue only get two and a half percent. This year
is not gonna happen. I hope you're okay with that.
Get them all fired up.
Right here on news radio eleven ten KFAB Lucy Chapman there,
I'm Scott Borhees's introduce you to the director of Community
Voice and Partnerships with a fairly new restaurant here been
out operation for a couple of years. Now Here in
Dundee off of fiftieth and Underwood, just about six blocks
or so north of fiftieth and Dodge, you'll find Uda Lali,
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a delightful name, and we've got the delightful aforementioned director
of Community Voice and Partnerships with Udalali here in the studio,
LaRue Marcos. Welcome to eleven ten KFA B. Thank you,
thank you for having me and officially I know it's
I'm a little late in doing this, but welcome to
the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Absolutely, you guys.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
A lot of people still call it, oh, it's the
old marks uh huh here, but it's a new restaurant.
But as much as we'll talk about, you know, lunch
and dinner specials and all that kind of stuff, here,
it's not so much restaurant stuff. I want to focus on.
It's the focus of Udo Lali, Why it started, who
would employ and your story as well, So why did
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this restaurant start and why does it take the why
does it have the mission that it does to help
the recently incarcerated in our community?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
A great question.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
The mission of the restaurant overall is where we are
trying to reduce the receptivism rates here in the state
of Nebraska. Nebraska has one of the highest incarceration rates
per capital and then also the highest receptivism rates. To
put some perspective on it, sixteen hundred people gets released
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from Nebraska's in prison systems or facilities every year. Out
of those sixteen hundred, eleven hundred of those people will
return within the next three years.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Why do you think that is?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
They don't have They lack the resources, They lack the
community welcome being welcomed back by the community. They don't
get access to housing, they don't get access to education,
they don't get access to livable employment.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
There's jobs that to hire them, but not enough.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
They won't pay them enough because they have that felony
letter that on their jacket. And it's unfortunate. But a
lot of people are not treating them, the previously incarcerated
population as people, but they are.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, it's it's obviously it's tough. There are some businesses like, look,
I'm not sure if we're going to give you access
to people's banking records and so forth. But at the
same time, if if the idea is you have paid
your debt to society and you can prove to somebody,
I'm not that guy anymore. I love it when businesses
give people a chance, which is really what the croux
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of this restaurant business is all ab us the lifestyle
opportunity to give people a chance. So how many people
are you able to employ there at Udali right now?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
We are about forty three forty four total staff. I
think out of those staff, I think about thirty six
thirty seven our participants in our Jumpstar program, our second
Chance I'm Hiring program.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So yeah, is this something where people get out and
then they hear about Uda Lali and then come over
and apply for a job or are you already kind
of working with them and identifying who would be a
good fit both ways and while they're still incarcerated to
be able to tell them you have hope, you've got
something to go to when you get out.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Absolutely great question. So we we partner with Metro one
to eight re Entry.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
That's the largest largest re entry program in the nation
right here in Omaha, Nebraska.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
They do a lot of our vetting process.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
They work directly with the incarcerated individuals because some people
have like one foot in and one foot out, so
that means that they're probably at the work release program
or they're on parole or probation, and so they still
are connected to They're still part of the state or
still part of the system, and so they do the
vetting process and make sure that the people that they're
sending a will fit and will work and also desire
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and want to become something new and change and get
their lives together. We also have a community base thing,
meaning like I've I was a participant in the program
once upon a time, and I've graduated the program, worked
my way up, and now I work in the administration.
I can recommend somebody, like if somebody calls me like, hey, bruh,
I really need help. I really want to get you know,
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take care of my children, like how I can my word?
The community word also is a factor in how we
hire as well.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Is how infuriating is it to just ask someone who
works there or like I'm about to ask you like, oh,
were you in jail?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
What did you do? Is that? Is that super infuriating?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Because if so, then I'll retrack the question and then
find a nicer way to ask the same thing.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So the the what did you do part never gets asked.
The uh were you or were you in prison before?
Is a is a common question? Is a common theme
around there? So were you in prison before? Were you
in prison before? And I have no problem sharing my
story or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
What's the what's the short version of your story? LaRue?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
A short version of the.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Story would be I come from a background where there
was a lack of resources. I grew up in Northeast Omaha,
single mom, five children. My story is not unique at
all in any way. This is the story of that area.
I just get to tell minds.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But just.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Having no identity, Uh so you try to join certain
organizations or groups.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
And when I say that, I mean like gangs and.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Uh community clicks and stuff like that in order to
like have an identity, to belong to something. So the
lack of identity, the lack of fathering, the lack of
being having access to proper education.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
There's a liquor store.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
In every corner and the communities I grew up in.
So just the energy and just everything. You know, you
are the environment and we've if you live in Omaha
or North Omaha, you know what that environment looks like.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, well, let me sound like your mom for a second.
And that's that is you got brothers and sisters grew
up the same way you did. They're not in jail.
There's a lot of other people on this block grew
up the same way you did. They're not in jail.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
They are all My brothers and sisters are so and
have been too so, I mean, and there's a lot
of people that the statistics if you look at their
Prison Policy Initiative, which is a nonprofit organization that tracks
records all across the nation for incarceration race. The statistics
that sols Nebraska records, it's like one in every sixteen
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black man will be incarcerated in this state. And so
that is a real statistic. So my brothers and sisters
are in jail.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, that maybe a topic for a different conversation. We
gotta bring your mom into this. Yes the way, talking
here with LaRue Marcos ood Lali Restaurant off fiftieth and Underwood,
just north of fiftieth and Dodge. This is a place
where I think a lot of people understand the idea
behind the restaurant, the fact that there are a lot
of people who've been in jail how recently? Like can
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someone get out yesterday and be washing dishes today? Like
how long is that process?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
So? So yes, the thing is when they're still connected.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
So if they're at the work release program and all
of that, technically they're still incarcerated.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
When they leave work, they go back to the facility.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
So yes, to answer your question, but like getting straight out,
if a person come in and wants a job, we
will direct them to Metro and say, hey, go there,
fill out the application, sign up for their workshops, and
they will do a vetting process and make sure that
this is a good fit.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
How do you then manage the expectations of a legion
of guilty white people, just to put that that fine
point on it. They want to go in there, and
they want to be able to tell their friends we
went there. It was great food, and we had someone
who spent time in jail for cannibalism as our waiter,
and he was great who knew just what we should
eat and he said, I had really nice arm. You
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know whatever, Sorry, I don't know. This show is ridiculous,
but they want, you know, to be waited on and
have someone making their food who's incarcerated because they feel
that that makes them great. But at the same time,
they're like, I'm not going to give you my credit card.
I got cash right now because they don't fully trust
the situation. Do you see that in people's faces when
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they come there to eat?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
No, I haven't seen that yet. And and and.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
That's the positive acceptance and feedback that we get right
here in Dundee, which I mean, this is the perfect spot,
one of the most diverse communities I've ever been in
this city. It's so welcoming and it's needed everywhere else.
I don't get that. We don't get that at all.
We get so much support, so much love, and people
are they believe in the mission and they want to
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support the mission.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
In addition to the restaurant, you guys are also looking
now at housing for people, another big issue. Where you're
gonna live, where you're gonna work, what are you going
to do? What's the rest of your life's gonna look like?
You're trying to check a lot of those boxes for people,
for those who really appreciate the mission that the Udo
Lali World is now providing to our community. How can
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they help Mark LaRue you're talking about far as the
housing part, Yeah, how can they give you a whole
bunch of money to help not just the restaurant obviously
to go in there and eat, but also for the
housing part.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
So the housing part is one of the things that
I advocate more for the most out of everything. You
can give somebody a job all day long, Pam fifty
bucks an hour, But if he has to go back
to an environment because he can't get accepted in his
own home where there's lines on the table and you know,
fighting and drugs and guns and all kinds of crazy
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stuff that goes on in those areas, he's going to
reset about. He's going to go back because he's in
an environment that is basically adding that on. So housing
is definitely one of the biggest factors that I advocate for,
and we definitely go we went into housing.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
We just opened up a sober.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Living home right here on Underwood and Dundee that's going
to house seven people, seven participants. That's going to go
through our program, so we'll be able to monitor vet
everybody going.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Through the process.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
That is a gateway to get in your own place, right.
We're going to start here and we're going to work
as a team. We're going to work your job. We're
going to pay three months of your rent upfront, you
know what I mean, so you can start saving your money.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Up and learn how to build your credit things.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
We're doing all of that financial literacy, all of that
through the Metro one Eddy program, and then when they're able,
they don't have to leave in three months, when they're
ready and they want to go. We're expanding our house
and we have housed about twelve people in apartments in
homes across the city, including myself.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I've been housed.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I have a four bedroom, three and a half bathroom
that takes care of me and my children and it's lovely,
best house I've ever.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Been in, and I'm very grateful for it.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
That in itself is incentive for me to never do
anything stupid again. I have a home, I have children
in it. When you don't have that, then you're in
and if it's to.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Go get that.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You guys are putting in the work exactly website people
can go to for more information.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yes, So you can go to how many o's are in?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Oh two o's that the that the preferred You're you're right,
You're you're corrected. Oh oh h d E L A
L L Y dot org dot org, or just go
to the restaurant.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
You can talking about Google Yah be a dot com
it is.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I'm looking out for you here, uh for for those
who want to go in there and eat though, promote
that restaurant lunch, dinner specials Monday morning, Sunday morning brunch.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
What do we got if you going in on lunch,
get the Vermicelli salad fire It's so gassed.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Vermicelli solid is so fired.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I'm always going to promote that our lobster row is
the best lobster role in the city of Omaha. I
haven't been to a lot of places in Nebraska, but
I will say in Omaha that lobster role is top tier,
top notch, and I mean everything like we we I've
been We've been told by many of our guests that
y'all make it so hard like we have our you know,
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salmon croquettes and just it's everything's super good. So I
would say lunch Vermicelli, sit outside on a patio next
to some flowers underneath the umbrellas.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Uh, doing dinner, Get a lobster role.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, that that little upstairs, the little patio area really really nice.
I just love the idea that someone was incarcerated recently
eating what in jail? What are they eating?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Oh god, Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
It's not lobster rolls and salmon croquettes?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Is its mystery?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Me?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Is what we call it.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Suddenly they're out going lobster roles. And I just I
love the idea of this, and I love that you're
concerned about the quality of the food and the the uh,
the experience people get when they come there and eat.
And I know that this can expand and do more
for people who have paid their debt to society to
decrease those ricidibus some rates for the incarcerated population of
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our community. LaRue Marcos of Udlali, thank you very much
for what you're doing here for our community. Thanks for
coming in and tell us about it today.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Absolutely thank you for having me a.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
News update in just a moment. Jimmy Fayla from Fox
News coming to town here this Saturday and joins us
next Scott News Radio eleven ten kfab welcoming back. I'm
very sad about this one more time before he's here
in Omaha on Saturday night and then never calls into
the show again, forgets all about us, doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It's it's Jimmy Fayla.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Hello, Jimmy, Holy heck, laying it on me.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Hey, I don't take breakups. Well.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
I'm a break I will tell you this.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Anna break up with you before you break up with me.
I just I'll just feel better. And after today you
can't after we go see you on Saturday night, you
can't come on the show ever again until you're back
in town.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Holy hek. All right, listen, man, I'm pretty low maintenance
when it comes to breakups. Like I'm not going to
like boil the bunny or anything like that. U. So
I'm just gonna take this in stride, and I guess
try to go forth in my life. I don't know
what to tell you, but Saturday night, I guess you
know what did Bob Seger sing we got tonight? Who
(14:21):
needs tomorrow? I guess for us, this is our Bob
Segert moment, Yes we got tonight man.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, And a lot of people don't know that. When
he sang that, he was talking about a comedy show
at the Astro Theater in La Vista featuring Jimmy Fayla,
Fox News host comedian with the Everybody Calm Down Tour.
Go to a ticketmaster and get tickets for this show
this Saturday night at the Astro in Lavista. Let's go
(14:47):
back to relationships here, Jimmy, are you generally have you
generally been the person who would break up with someone
or would you always get broken.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Up with I mean, you know, all honesty, most of
the people I was with I was the women I
was paying them, So it wasn't really a breakup. It
was more, you know, transactional. You leave the money on
the night stand and away they go.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, yeah, you know how that worked.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
And you know, for the most part, I was pretty
lucky in love. I guess because whatever conversational acumen I possess,
I have had since I was five. So if I
guess funny or I could talk on TV, whatever that is,
I really had that when I was five. So people
who know me don't look at this like I'm some
type of rising star in media, they see this as
(15:34):
the sand decline of a former child prodigy. Okay, so
it just depends how long you know me for. But
if you knew me when I was five, you're kind
of underwhelmed by all of it.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So how did that manifest itself in kindergarten? It's like,
all right, does anyone else want to try and answer
this question other than Jimmy who's in the front row
waving his arm.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I know, I know the answer to this question.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Yeah, I told a lot of Joe class. I had
a for real, I had a fifth grade teacher, missus Pascana,
that made me go home and watch the tonight show
because she wanted to talk to me about it. And
the next day she said, hey, I may just stay
up and watch that because I really think you could
host one of those shows some day. And again, she
might have just felt bad because she saw my report
card and realized I had no other options in life,
(16:21):
but like she did say that to me, and like,
you know, you believe teachers at that age, so like
I was in and that like I'm probably doing this
because that woman who was also sending me to summer
school thought I could host the tonight show. And I
was like, well, maybe she's right.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I don't know so good.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
We're not doing bad.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well, it's Fox across America, Fox News Saturday Night did
the tonight show.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It's all the same thing.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Uh. That is I love stories about being influenced by
teachers in a good way, and that is that's an
awesome story.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
So did you ever get a chance to tell her
how much she influenced you?
Speaker 5 (16:58):
You know what? Yeah, she saw me to talking about
her on TV. I was filling in on the five
like three years ago, and I dropped her name on
TV and she found me on Facebook and then I
had her to one of my shows like a year ago.
She was at a taping of Fox New Saturday Night
in the audience and everyone gave her a big ovation
and I was like, no, don't clap. This b word
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sent me to summer school and everyone last.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, I thought she was going to say, look, I
am a big il han Omar voter. Don't blame me
for this. I don't want to be tied into Fox News.
How about il han Omar? The when World War eleven?
Is there any fodder there for you, I'm guessing, well, yeah, she's.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
You know, there's a little bit of a Roman numeral
issue there. Like I'd hate to break it to her,
but Rocky did Night did Dot fight Apollo for the
eleventh time in Rocky two. That was a rematch. You know,
I think she's getting to the bottom of the bottom
up right now. I thought that was fantastic. I love
all of this, the fact that you know, the income
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statement went from you know, sixty six thousand to thirty
million back to whatever she's telling us it is now.
And it's it's fascinating because when you hear illan Omar talk,
you know, you understand why Democrats believe women aren't smart
enough to figure out voter I d You know, they
always say, if we have voter ID laws, married women
(18:23):
can't figure it out. First of all, of course they cant, yes,
my wife changed her name in five seconds after we
got married. She's trying to change it again after last
week's TV show. But put the point, when you hear
like a Mazy Herono or an illan Omar, you go, oh,
I see why democrats talk down to women. They think
they're all like.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
This, Yeah, no, that's perfect and This is the kind
of thing you can expect. You've influenced me and inspired
me to do a couple of things this weekend. Jimmy
is go see you at the Astro in La Vista
on Saturday night. And when I get a chance, I'm
going to watch Rocky take on Cluver Lang and Rocky
one hundred and less.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
It's gonna be a great You're gonna love it, man.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, I got the.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Stammina, but look at him.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Go go to Ticketmaster or go right up to the
box office. Then no guarantee that tickets will still be available.
This will sell out this Saturday night at the Astro
seven o'clock. Jimmy Fayla from Fox News the Everybody Calm
Down Tour. Loved the name of it. We'll see you
on Saturday. Jimmy Save Travels coming to here to Omaha
(19:26):
rock and Roll.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Thanks man, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Jimmy Fayla from Fox News Right here on Fox News
Affiliate eleven to ten Kfab.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Scott Bodies, where you're going, Jean.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Starter in the Kfab comment line coming up here. You
got kind of a spicy conversation coming up on your show.
I think we'll we'll talk about We'll talk about that
here in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Here.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Let me uh, I gotta get back on time. Short
segment here, because we had Jimmy Fayla on a moment ago.
And one thing that when she was remember Lucy, Uh
when Jean, what does she do before she was a
radio host?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I heard she was into politics or something.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
She was the mayor.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I did know that he was the mayor.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
And one of the things about which I gave her
grief during her tenure. I'm gonna talk to you and
not look over to my right see and see her
glaring at me was her homeless services coordinator and council Bluffs.
They just had a big conversation about this. Sorry, I
just looked over to the right, eyes of death. Eyes
(20:28):
of death over there, and council Bluffs. The new mayor,
whose name is I can.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Never remember her name, some.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
A very lovely woman.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Her name is not in this this news story I'm
looking at. I thought i'd look down and see it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
You don't need to know me by anything other than mayor.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I want to say Jill Shaddick or something like that.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I'm not arguing.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Sorry, you just got elected, do something. If I don't
remember your name, that's not my fault, that's yours. Do something.
But now they're talking about how they have more of
a homeless issue in Council Bluffs and new mayor who
still has that new mayor smell. And I know because
that's what Joe Biden told me. UH wants to have
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a homeless services coordinator to work.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Out of her office.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And the council said, I don't know if that's a
great idea, because when some area towns have a homeless
services coordinator, it seems like there's more homeless that go
there because you've got a coordinator going out in the
streets saying, oh, let's take care of you baby, Let's
give you this, and like to make sure you have
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that and all the rest of those things here. And
so then you have more homeless going, Hey, we've got
services being coordinated for us over here. And Counsel Bluff said,
let's let Omaha take care of that. You know what
Counsel Bluff should do with the homeless us point them
across the Bob Carrey Pedestrian Bridge and go go west,
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and we don't want you here.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
And so the mayor of Council Bluffs. What's her name?
I'm trying to I'll turn your microphone on.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
I'm blanking too.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I thought you were looking it up, mayor, to.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Look it up.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I was right, Jill Shattick shot shoot act. That's almost right, Jill,
Jill shoot act. May beloved Mayor Council Bluffs, renowned.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Mayor. I think I'm proud.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
New she's brand new, so she might be beloved eventually.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And don't be offended, Mayor shoot Act. I only just
finally learned Matt Walsh's name because, uh, you know, we
had Mayor for life, Tom hanafin there for a million years.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yes we did.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
So that's sorry.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I know you get jealous and you hear about mayors
who go out on their own power. You are, But
Council Bluffs seems to be saying, send the homeless over
to Omaha.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Let it be their problem. You know.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
The last count in time that HUD did, which they
do at every January, the last address of the the
unsheltered on the majority was Council Bluffs.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Do the unsheltered live next to the homeless? What do
you mean they unsheltered are homeless?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Okay, well I just didn't know were I figured there
are some people say if we use different softer sounding terms,
then the problem doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
There are sheltered, sheltered homeless.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Okay, yeah, and they don't care what you call them.
Council Bluffs is like, let's call them omahans. Send them
over the bridge. That's why they were doing another pedestrian bridge.
We need another bridge more. There's so many homeless go
over there.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Wait, did you just say let's call them omahan's.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yep, they that's what they say in cbe the guest
you have on your show here coming up in twelve minutes.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Yeah, I have a great guest. I have Tony Connor
coming on. Tony Connor is a is an Omaha police officer.
Still he's a sergeant. He is also president of the
Nebraska State Fraternal Order of Police and he is also
a former president of Omaha Police Officers Association.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
So when when you're the mayor, you're the boss of
the town. He's the union president for the police. You
guys are real chummy. You get along real well.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Did he have good things to say about you?
Speaker 6 (24:32):
It's a love hate relationship, it really is. And Tony
and I have that relationship. So we are hot and
cold with each other.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well, what temperature will we be turning things up?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Well, it will be nice and warm and fuzzy. Today
we have lots, we have lots to talk about.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
That's no fun. It'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I'm try and get him all wound up before he
gets started. Okay, you do that, hey, Tony, Great to
have you in here. Jane just said that she suggested
to her good friend Mayor Johnny that the fire department
get a five percent raise and the guys in the
blue only get two and a half percent. This year
is not gonna happen. I hope you're okay with that.
Get them all fired up.
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