Kellogg's / Storm Debris / Milli Vanilli

We respond to the breaking news about a big business leaving Omaha, update on power outage/storm debris details, take a quick look at a former Nebraskan picked as Co-President Harris' running mate, and talk with Fab of Milli Vanilli to answer my decades-old burning questions about that controversy.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
But where do we start today?

Speaker 3 (00:03):
I know that whatever wherever we start, we have to
do kind of a roundtable conversation of all the main
points in this segment of the radio program, because as
proof that this show will do anything at any time,
we're talking to Fab in thirteen minutes, Fab of Rob
and Fab aka Millie Vanilli, the famous lip singers, infamous
lip singers of the late eighties. There's a film coming

(00:25):
out about that whole scandal, and I'm hoping to finally
find out for the first time in my life the
answers to two questions burning questions of my life. Number one,
so who actually sang those songs? Number two, why didn't
they release another album? Blame It on the Rain was
a great song. So we'll we'll do that. We'll stop

(00:48):
everything and do that here at nine to twenty and
twelve minutes from now. Before then, let's start with Kellogg's.
In twenty twenty one, fourteen hundred workers walked off their
jobs at four different Kellogg's plants around the country. Yet
today Kellogg's just announced that they will close its Omaha plant.

(01:12):
There are at ninety six the f streets where it's
been for over sixty years. Why omaha, is it because
people aren't eating cereal as much anymore? I imagine that
has a lot to do with it. We've heard this
story before of all the things that the younger generations
just aren't doing like previous generations. And as I told

(01:33):
Gary and Jim half an hour ago on kfab's Morning News,
I think about how Lucy, when you and I were
growing up as proud jen Xers, you had breakfast before
you went to school, and once you got to a
certain age. I don't know about you, but my parents
generally weren't up making us breakfast or even making sure

(01:56):
we had breakfast. We had to get up and feed
ourselves and get ourselves to school on time. And the
easiest way to do that, and probably the most delicious
way to do that, was just bull of frosted flakes, applejacks, tricks,
whatever it is that you would have. You have a
bowl of cold cereal, or at Lucy's home, probably some

(02:18):
colored styrofoam that they said, yeah, this is cereal, this
is generic brand. This isn't cocoa puffs at all, this
is poco cuffs. I don't know what this is just
eat the brown styrofoam and like it.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
We had the good cereal when it was in the
box from the food bank.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Gee, Lucy's upbringing. Well, hey, that was one of the
days where you didn't have to eat sand. You know
those are days, Those are the halcyon days of your youth.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
My mother usually made us pancakes. It was cheaper.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Really, Oh, is that where the pancakes line comes from?
Would she say, good morning, Lucy, I made you pancakes
for breakfast, not gets ever chol Well, for me and
all of my friends, we'd have cereal. Get up, have
a bowl of cereal.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, but you were eating corn flakes. That's not cereal, I.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Said, frosted flakes. Well, yeah, sometimes we had corn flakes
or wheaties or cheerios. The dry bland like this doesn't
have marshmallows in it or anything. And you know what
we do with it?

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Then?

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yep, you heep in four or five giant tablespoons of sugar.
So much sugar in there that at the end you
would be just having spoonfuls of sugar and milk. It's
a wonder that my teeth are still somewhat in my head.
So we'd get up, we'd have cereal because we had

(03:42):
to get up, make ourselves something to eat, or we
go hungry. So we have cereal and we go and
on Saturday mornings, that's when you get up and have
cereal and watch Saturday Morning cartoons.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Take the box with you, yeah, or you just.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Reach your grubby little fingers into the box and you
eat handfuls of dry cereal and find the toy inside.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
And it was great.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Need to watch Fred and Barney do the maze on
the background, Barney my pebbles. You know, it was fantastic.
What is the current pattern for youth today? They got
to get to school a little bit early because the
schools giving free breakfast. In some cases it's a hot breakfast.
And the parents are like, why am I gonna spend

(04:22):
money on breakfast and waste time in the morning doing
breakfast when the school's giving out free breakfast, And they'd
rather get there early and hang out with their friends.
So most these kids go hang out and get the
free breakfast at the school and Saturday Morning cartoons.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (04:36):
I can watch cartoons anytime I want cartoons on demand
right here on my phone or my iPad. Some sort
of device that's in my face constantly. And as far
as making food myself or having to fend for myself,
why would I do that. My parents cater to my
every want and desire. All right, we're going someplace. We're

(04:57):
gonna be gone forty five minutes. I bet takes several
snacks and bottles of water, said no parent in the
seventies and eighties.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Nope, can confirm.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
So it's not that they don't like cereal. It's just
that that habit is gone for many of them. Oh
and there's another thing that might cause Omaha to lose
our local Kellogg's plan. In twenty twenty one, as I said,
fourteen hundred workers at four plants across the country went
on strike. We need more stuff, of course, you do,

(05:28):
what do you need? So then they start that. Well,
Kellogg's only filed one lawsuit against the striking workers in
those four plants around the country, and that was against
the Omaha chapter of the Bakery, Confectionery Tobacco Workers in
Grain Miller's International Union. They said that these striking union

(05:50):
members in Omaha and Omaha only intimidated non union staff
members at our plant right here, blocked vehicles from coming
into and out of the facil, threatened other employees and
their families' lives, followed.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Them to where they live, and use.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Racial slurs so that you know, wonder like, oh, so,
how come as the union representative Dan Osborne, if that
name's found familiar, he's now decided to take on deb
Fisher and the Senate race as an independent candidate. We've
talked to him before, we'll talk to him again. Dan

(06:28):
is all mad today. He tells WWT six News that yeah,
they're gonna they're gonna close this plant starting in late
next year and fully close it by the end of
twenty twenty six. And it's going to end five hundred
union jobs. How many people work at Kellogg's. It's not
just five hundred union laborers, but apparently he doesn't care

(06:49):
about the other workers. So it's gonna end five hundred
union jobs. And he's of course mad for his guys,
and I understand I can appreciate that. But is there
mirror around their mirror anywhere around there?

Speaker 2 (07:00):
In your car?

Speaker 3 (07:00):
You got a side view, rear view, you pull the
shade down, there's a mirror right there. Do you have
any responsibility we're gonna go on strike till we get
what we want. Well, we can't give you guys this
because it would bankrupt this facility.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
We don't care. We want this. You fat cats are
making money and over.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Fist, we gotta have this and if we don't get it,
we're going on strike forever. And they went on strike
for a long time. Well, it seems like in October
of twenty twenty one, that's when kell Ogg's started figuring
out a way to shut down Omaha. You don't think
SPIKEE might have something to do with it. You don't
think they might have another community someplaces say, yeah, we

(07:39):
got space, come build a facility here. If that's what
they're going to do, or maybe they're just going to
downsize a little bit. Maybe that has nothing to do
with it. I don't know, but it sure is interesting
that that's the timeline. Yesterday, City of Omaha announced that
the curb side pickup of your tree debris starts Thursday. Thursday.

(08:03):
I thought it started yesterday. Well, they said last week
that debris pick up on the curb side would start
quote next week, that could be anytime this week. Yesterday
we found out that's Thursday, When are you going to
know when your stuff's picked up?

Speaker 2 (08:16):
What day?

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Well, probably more accurately, what week. I don't know where
it starts. I don't know when it's going to end.
They're hoping three to four weeks. But they did say
one thing, Lucy, I'm really excited about what they are
going to pick up yard waste bags?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
I got. Oh yeah, yeah, I don't have to dump
up my yard waste bags.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Can I ask what difference does it make when they
pick it up? Are you going to move all of
those sticks and branches back to the side of your house? Oh?

Speaker 2 (08:43):
No, you leave them out there.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Difference does didn't make I'll handle this, don't you do that?

Speaker 2 (08:48):
That's what you asked, difference.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Just leave your stuff out there, and uh, they'll get
it when they get it. And if you please, don't
don't you dare call the mayor's high or the police
when it's been two weeks and your tree debris at
your curb side hasn't been picked up yet, don't you dare?

(09:10):
Now you can call someone if they come around and
they pick up your neighbor's tree debris but not yours.
That's when you call and say, hey, not sure how
you miss this. I've got a forest in front of
my house right there on the curve. Make sure it's
on the curve. There's one house not too far from
our radio station in midtown where they got all kinds

(09:32):
of tree debris, but it's not on the curve. It's
still in the yard. I think you might want to
push that a little further. This is a tough time
to go walking and riding bikes on the sidewalks around
Omaha right now with all this stuff. But really that's
the least of our concerns.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
They hope to have.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Of all the customers without power right now, they hope
to have half of you if you still don't have
power restored by the end of the day today.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Some of the latest from the.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
City of Omaha and Kamala Harris has chosen Governor Tim Wats,
the Nebraska native, as her running mate, and Jimmy Crackcorn.
I don't know that anyone's like, Okay, now, I'll vote
for her. Maybe a few people in Minnesota, and I
don't think anyone who was not going to vote for
Harris says oh yeah, Tim Walls, I'm this guy has

(10:23):
got some great Nebraska roots. We'll talk more about Governor Waltz,
the Good and the Bad coming up a little bit
later in the program. But next we're gonna talk to
Millie Vanilly. I don't know if he's Milly or he's Vanilly,
but he's fab More Van and he joins us next.

(10:45):
Since I first heard this song in this album, I've
had two burning questions on my mind since what is this?

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Nineteen eighty nine, nineteen ninety.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
And we're finally gonna get a chance to get these
questions perhaps answered, maybe not during this phone conversation, but
in this new movie called Girl You Know.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
It's true.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
I chose this song because I prefer it, but Girl
you Know it's too Probably the biggest hit for Millie
Vanilli that would be Rob and Fab. We welcome onto
the program, Fab here on KFAB, a radio station named
for him. Fab More van joins us here on eleven
ten KFAB and uh Fab. It's great to having the program.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Good morning, Hey, good morning, Scott.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
How you doing?

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Man?

Speaker 5 (11:31):
I wonder happy to be here and be able to
tell you the story. Finally, Girno's movie coming around August ninth,
ADMI theaters, and we're telling your story you're going to
find out about it, your working and what happened. What happened?

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Well, we've heard so many things over the years that
you were in on it, then you weren't in on it,
and you were blindsided. I want to focus a little
bit more specifically on one part of that, because I
don't think anyone gives a rip if the if we
didn't have the perfect combination of image and great music.

(12:04):
I mean songs like blaming on the Rain Girl, you
know it's true, Baby, don't forget my number. Radio still
plays these songs. So has What has been your relationship
with these songs from the time that you realize you
wouldn't be allowed to sing them to how you feel
when you hear them on the radio still today.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Well, listen, man, you know I've had to I had
to grow my emotional intelligence, forgive Frank Farren, the producer,
for what was done to me and the label. Move
forward and perform day and day out every weekend. I'm
on the road, I have live then I perform with
tape shows as well, and I've been seeing those songs.
At first, I didn't want to. The first opportunity that

(12:46):
came to me, I said, no, until I said, well,
you know, why not? And then when I started, I
never stopped. This is how I make my money. I'm
on the road. I sing live every weekend to ten thousands,
sometimes fifteen thousand throughout Europe and I love it. And
now finally something else that I don't know if you

(13:08):
know this, but we thought that it would be a
great idea to release a new version of Guerinois Shrue
and a new version of Blaming It on the Rain
Acoustic Geranoid's Shrew the think Bole came out That's Friday,
this Thursday, Blaming on the Rain's coming out acoustics. Diane
Warren gave me her blessings. The movie is coming out,

(13:28):
and obviously when you listen to me saying on those records,
you're like, oh, obviously throwing sing and we were not
allowed to sing. Frank had a plan and nobody was
going to go against him. He was a very powerful
man and no nobody wanted to cross him. So everybody
did what they had to do. But he's the one

(13:48):
planned everything.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
Frank Cheron, Frank Ferran was the producer of He was
the orchestrator, he was the geppedo of all of this
as you see in the film. And I'm so glad
that you you're still kind of working with Diane Warren
on this. We had her on the program a year
or two ago, and I even talked with her about
her you know great songs like Blaming on the Rain,
and she says, you know what, it was a great song.

(14:11):
So who actually sang those songs? Fab And why didn't
they release another album? Because this was great music.

Speaker 5 (14:21):
It was great music many you can't deny that. And
the thing is that what's weird is that how they
treated us, and they came down on us super hard,
but they never went to Clive Davis, for example. They
never tried him too hard. Frank farn was too far.
But Aristaid label was in New York. What happened to

(14:41):
her investigative journalism? What happened to that? They never asked
a hard question. But you made the money. You made
three hundred million dollars in excess in two years. That
money was reinst invested in other labels that Clive Davis
created bad Boy Records, so so Death the Face Record
and gave birth to a slew of artists in the nineties.

(15:04):
But without that money that we generated some of that
wouldn't have been possible. Maybe some of it, but not
all of that because during those two years Arista was
not doing well well. We brought in the box.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Still who were the actual singers though, Who were the
guys that actually sang those songs?

Speaker 5 (15:22):
Okay, you have John Davis who passed away about three
years ago, and you have Brett al who's still alive.
And then the rapper on the first single, Gernod Shue
was Charles Shaw, So there was a different rapper from
the first single to the second single. And those guys
were recording those songs way before we came into the picture,

(15:43):
but we didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Did you ever think about doing like you and Rob
get together and do a tour or some shows and
stuff with those guys and just you know, say, hey,
we're all together now as a family. We're going to
make it work.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
Hey, you know the idiom Divide and Conquer with Frank
did he took all those guys and played us, laid
them against us because we were we wanted to do that,
but Frank cut that off really quick, and he did
these things and no, no, no, you guys are going to
be going on the road alone. Forget those guys. We
do it, not them. And he had the money, he

(16:18):
had the financed the finance. So they did it, you know.
But he didn't last too long. As a matter of fact,
let me tell you it's a bit of information. It's
in a documentary. In a documentary, people realized that he
did it with Bunnie M. He did the vocals for
the singer of bony M. We might not everyone would
know might know that, but milivantly and that the true,

(16:41):
the real milivanillity he did it against because the people
that were in the front on stage, they didn't sing
none of that. The people that were behind were the
Reeds singer. But he was selling it as those two
people in the front with the music was already.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Recorded with which group.

Speaker 5 (17:01):
With the real after us? This is another group who
did another album, Chip On Running was done by the
real Milivan Illy. He brought into singers. But what he
did he put the singers in the bend in the
back and then he puts a guy that looks like
Robb and a girl in a front. But those two
people that added never recorded a thing on that album.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
No, I you know what that guy, he's certainly portrayed
as and I understand why you think so the villain
in this film. Girl, you know it's true. It's in
theaters coming up here this weekend, starting up on August ninth.
And Fab, it's so great to have you on the program.
I would be remiss if we didn't, of course, mention

(17:45):
the other half of your duo, and I want to
do so. But because we ask our favorite guests in
this program to say a line for us that we
feel is the best thing to hear first thing in
the morning. Now the line is good morning, honey, I
made you pancakes for break breakfast. But I'm hoping you
can say it as good morning, Rob, I made you
pancakes for breakfast.

Speaker 5 (18:10):
Good morning Rob, I made you pancakes for breakfast. That's it.
I wish I could say that.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Brother.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, I know we we lost him way too soon, man,
And it's been a long time in nineteen ninety eight.
I can't believe it. I can't wait to see this movie.
I'm still a Milli Vanilli fan. I still sing along
with all the songs. I wish the best for you,
my friend.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
But listen, you got to listen to my versions, because
my versions are really really nice. You'll be surprised about
what I did. I think really nice.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
An acoustic version of Layman on the Rains sing by
you when that comes out here, we're gonna play that
on the radio, I promise.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
Okay man, it's gonna be on. But it's gonna be
on on music platforms on Thursdays South.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
We'll get it.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
I'm gonna put a reminder on my calendar right now.
Thank you very much, fab good talking to you.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Thank you, Scott Byes News Radio eleven ten Kyfaby.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
This manage FROMPPD, and it's really easy to fall victim
of these things, especially during so much confusion. So it
never hurts to repeat these messages. OPPD says that they're
hearing from many customers who are receiving text messages that

(19:20):
they believed were from Omaha Public Power District. We are
not sending out text messages. Be wary of any such
message they receive, don't respond to them. If you have
any questions, call OPPD directly. Scammers are trying to get

(19:40):
you in how you would think, like, how would someone
fall for something like that? You get a text message
going he as your power out. This is OPPD venmo
us one thousand dollars will get your power on by noon.
So I'm like, okay, how in the world would you
do you think the mob runs OPPD. By the way,

(20:03):
if the mob is listening, I totally think you guys
would do a great job, and I have no problem
with you, but that's not how they generally operate. Hey,
powers out, Uh, and maybe we get that on for you.
Maybe we can't. Maybe uh, maybe you do a little
something from me.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
Maybe not now, yeah, but maybe later.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
We're gonna give you some air conditioning you can't refuse.
Scott stopped doing it. I know, I know, I realized
that as soon as I started. I'm sorry about that.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
To the mattresses. There are all of your seventies movie references.
For this segment of the radio program, Mike says, big
shout out to all OPPD workers and contractors. I've seen
so many of you out working hard in this heat.
Your service to the diverse people of this community is
not unrecognized. Thank you for what you do and continue

(20:58):
to do for us all. And there's not even a
butt on this email. Usually you get something like that, like, Hey,
these guys are doing a great job. I love you know,
they're working out their one hundred degrees. Yesterday, these guys
put in a sixteen hour shift, barely took a break.
But if I could be picky by something, get my
power back on, you know, usually there's something like that.

(21:20):
Speaking of scams, I was this close, Lucy, How close
was I? People can't see my fingers right now.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
You can't even put a piece of paper between those fingers.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
I was this close, the falling victim to a Facebook
scam last week. What well, it hooks you with a
couple of different things. First of all, I have I mean,
Facebook friendship is the tie that binds if we're connected
on Facebook, as far as I'm concerned, we're besties even

(21:57):
if we've never met. And there was a something that
popped up there on my Facebook feed the other day
from someone I don't know, and it looked totally legit.
And here's how it goes. And for those of you
who already know about this scam, don't roll your eyes
at me. I'd never seen it before, but I figured

(22:20):
it out. But it was really close. Here's how it works.
I'm giving you a heads up on this. Someone posts
on there and something like in this case, it was
we're moving my dad into assisted living and we just
need to unload a lot of his stuff and figure

(22:42):
the easiest and best way is just to ask my
friends here on Facebook, hey, what do you need? What
do you want? Make me an offer if you don't
like the price. And so it's a lot of different items.
It's stuff that you would think like, okay, this is
what he has, and there's pictures of all of it.
You know, we got a lawnmower, log splitter, you know whatever,
you got some lawn chairs, you know, all this stuff,

(23:04):
and a lot of it is very reasonably priced. But
there's a couple things in there that have a this
is too good to be too true price. And one
of them was a pickup truck. And my son turned
sixteen here in just over a month from now, and
I keep telling him, you're going to be driving an

(23:25):
old pickup truck. But Dad, I don't want to drive
an old pick Well, then you go on get a
job by yourself a vehicle, because I wanted an old
pickup truck and you need a vehicle. This is gonna work.
So here on this Facebook post was a really nice
pickup truck about ten years old, looked to be in

(23:45):
great condition and priced at a ridiculously cheap price. He's like, so,
just you know, message me and we'll arrange payment and
all that. So I sent a message to this guy,
will also simultaneously checking our mutual friends and reaching out
to them, going all right, who is this guy?

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Is he legit?

Speaker 3 (24:03):
This's a real person, And they both said yeah, yeah,
good guy. I'm like, great, So I send a message
and I'm interested in the truck. He's like, fantastic, we
still got it for you. I'll hold it for you.
Just send me the totally refundable payment to this PayPal account.

(24:27):
And I said, well, I have some questions about it,
and I can even come out this evening and take
a look and I'll bring you a check for the
full amount right now. No, no, no, I'm busy. Just now,
I'm start like, okay, what's going on? And that's when
I started doing a little due diligence, a little digging,
and I found out apparently everyone in the world knows

(24:48):
about this scam on Facebook except me, and I was
really close to falling for it. It seemed totally legit
in this case. When they hack your Facebook, this is
the kind of thing they do with it. So I
stopped communicating with this guy because you know, why what
am I gonna do? And the next message I get

(25:11):
is at two forty eight am, Hey, haven't seen your
payment yet? Like, oh, now you're up all night wondering
if I'm so just a little public service announcement. Watch
out for that stuff. Here's how you can tell. Number one,
it's the same stuff your parents told you. If it
seems too good to be true, it probably is, except,

(25:32):
of course, for this radio show. This really is as
good as you think it is. When by the way,
I'm gonna give that one a ding. That's a really short,
an obscure reference. There's your seventies movie reference for this
segment of the radio program.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Lucy.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
The line is and only is when you got that one?
No oh, the full line is a man drink like
that he is going to die? When got it?

Speaker 2 (26:10):
No? Hey, where are the white.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Women at come on blazing saddles? Oh I don't know?

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Are we black? Great movie? All right? Where was I? Anyway?

Speaker 3 (26:24):
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.
Also on this particular Facebook post, the comments were turned off.
Nah see I should have should have seen that coming
a mile away, almost fell for it. I'm giving you
this knowledge so that you don't fall for it. Now
regarding Kellogg's, the Kellogg's plant in Omaha is shutting her down.

(26:50):
And it's not like Kellogg's is saying, yeah, we're going
out of business and downsizing. They apparently just said we're
shutting down the Omaha plant, and that's that is that
your No, they're gonna scale back production, but they're not
shutting down a plant in Memphis. But they're gonna scale

(27:10):
back production. Now, Kellogg's has several plants, not a million
or anything, though they have the one up in Michigan
and US Memphis, there's someplace else. But they said we're
gonna do a phased reduction in production beginning late next year.
Right now, we make about twenty seven different products here

(27:32):
at Kellogg's. That's gonna go down to one by the
end of next year. What are they making? Cornflakes? Special
K and then they're gonna shut it down completely in
twenty twenty six. The real question is why are they

(27:52):
doing this for Omaha? Secondary question is if they already
told everyone today. On August syenth, this came out this
morning on August sixth, twenty twenty four, like, Hey, none
of you guys are gonna have jobs in two years,
and many of you won't have jobs in about a year.
How many people are like, I'll keep working here. Whatever
you need management. I'm totally not gonna go somewhere else today.

(28:18):
I'll keep working here. I'll stay on this sinking ship.
So that could be a problem. I don't know who's
going to be out there, but that's the announcement we got.
And you wonder why, Omaha, and I say, well, I

(28:39):
think that a lot of young people, especially don't eat
cereal anymore. Got a great picture from Tom of a
kid eating a bull of cereal and staring at the
back of what appears to be a Captain Crunch cereal box. Says,
when I was a kid, there were no phones or tablets.
We read cereal boxes at breakfast. Aimen to that Tom,

(29:02):
and Dan says Scott, I'm a man, I'm forty and
he gave himself a ding for that one. There's your
Oklahoma state coach Mike Gundhy reference for this segment of
the radio program. I'm a man, I'm forty, Dan says,
I still eat cereal every day for breakfast and sometimes
for dinner. Sad to hear the best smelling place in

(29:22):
Omaha is closing. That's the thing I'm really gonna miss.
The smell just smelled like like maple ley cornflakes. Man
bottle that smell. They should sell Kellogg's production plant cologne.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Ah yeah, why don't you.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
Just get a box of corn flakes.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Why don't you just get a box corn flakes. I'm
mourning over here. I used to live right next to that.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
You could use it like baby powder, get it fine ground.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Now I want to I want to do it like
a perfume. And when I get my perfume bottle of
Kellogg's Reduction Plant, I don't want the cologne because the colonne,
you're supposed to put a little bit on your finger
and like dabit here and dabit there. I like having
one of those perfume bottles where you're holding the bottle
itself with the left hand, then you got the pump
with the right hand and you spritz it in the

(30:16):
air and you just kind of fall into the mist
and let it envelop you in its maple leak cornflakes scent.
That's what I want. I think it's tough. I think
that's a really tough thing. I just described that's what
I want. The heart wants with the heart wants. Downtown
Omaha had an interesting site last night. If you were

(30:37):
driving around four to eighty, just around midnight, you probably
saw this. I'll explain next.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Scott Fortes were you're going news radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Mitch email Scott at kfab dot com and says, I
grew up at ninety sixth Then Center. You could literally
taste the smell the day they made Apple Jack's Sad
Day for Omaha. The Kellogg plant shutting down. It's still
a couple of years away for full shutdown, but I
imagine they'll be ramped up when all the employees leave.

(31:08):
I think that'll probably do it. And Monica emails says,
I just reached out to Yankee Candle R and D
Research and Development to request the Kellogg factory candle scent.
They are on it. Thank you, Monica. See I say
great ideas on the radio. Lucy just rolls her eyes

(31:29):
and shrugs and goes back to smoking pipes in the
newsroom or whatever you're doing over there. Monica's actually doing stuff. Well,
I'm over here mining gold and Lucy's just staring at me.
Monica's doing stuff.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
I'm doing stuff.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
What are you doing?

Speaker 4 (31:49):
I cannot say?

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Did you have Yeah? I bet did you have this?
On your traffic updates? At midnight last night and hear
thirtieth in Dodge. You could see the flames from four.
That was the burger King at thirtieth in Dodge. Huge
dumpster fire, an actual literal dumpster fire. So often when
we talk about dumpster fires, we talk about things like

(32:13):
the Harris Walls ticket. We'll talk about that in ten minutes.
This was a literal dumpster fire at thirtieth in Dodge.
Burger Kings are trying to figure out why. They think
maybe someone came in set it on fire. I know
how a dumpster can catch fire. Who I have twenty
seconds to tell the story? Assistant manager, Cinema Center, nineteen
ninety whatever the popcorn caught on fire in the movie theater.

(32:37):
We put it out. We ran cold water in a
plastic bucket. It was I had my hand in the bucket,
the flames were out. It was like all not smoking
or anything. I threw it in the dumpster. It reignited
The next thing I know, people are coming out of
the movie Man of the House with Jonathan Taylor Thomas
and Chevy Chase, going is the movie theater on fire?
And that's when someone runs in from outside, going, your

(32:59):
dumpster's on fire. I went out there with a fire
extingulers hit the longer than twenty seconds. I went with
the fire extinguisher and backdrafted that yacht. I was out there.
It's fire into flames. It was one of the greatest
nights of my life. And the fire department showed up.
I got in trouble, so I swear the fire was out.
Just got the news about an hour and a half
ago that Kellogg's is shutting down its Omaha plant, not

(33:22):
real soon, but beginning late next year and fully closed
in the by the end of twenty twenty six. The
venerable plant here in Omaha in ninety six. Then f
that smells so effervescently wonderful is gonna be closed. The
union workers got the word this morning, filed out. These

(33:44):
guys were so mad they didn't even have the the
heart to punch a non union worker on their way
out the doors this morning. They're like, I don't even
want to hit someone broadside up the head with the
two by four. I just want to I think about this.
So these guys got the word that their jobs are
coming to an end here in the next couple of years,

(34:08):
as Kellogg says, we're closing its Omaha plan after more
than sixty years in omahas a lot of questions in
the wake of this. How many of these workers are
going to stay behind is one of those I've been
talking about. Dave emails via the Zonkers custom woods inbox
Scott at kfab dot com and says, let's see a

(34:31):
bunch of bitter employees that were told they have eighteen
months left to secure employment making breakfast cereal elsewhere.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Hmmm.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
I think I'll stick to bacon and eggs until I
know my applejacks are coming from a different plant, leaving
me knowing they're not covered with somebody's wang bitterness sign Dave, Dave, I,
first of all, if like apple Jack's, I don't even

(35:07):
I mean, I don't even. I don't know about these guys,
but for most it like it wouldn't fit. It's not
a batting donut. I don't think that they're stirring the
flakes with their to borrow your phrase, wang bitterness. I
don't think any of that is happening, though it does

(35:32):
remind me of a story. Oh please don't no, it's
years ago. On this program. We had a lot of
fun for once, and the topic was ways that you
screwed around at work, not like that, like goofed off.
I think I probably started the story. I don't remember
if this was the particular story, but growing up here

(35:52):
in Omaha and working for the Douglas Theater movie Chains,
movie Chain, working at all the great Douglas theaters except one.
I never did work here nine, but gave us an
opportunity to get to know all the workers. Cinema Center,
Park four. Park four was my home always will be
Millard four South Roads, twenty Grand. When they opened that one,

(36:18):
did I leave somebody out? No one cares anyway. We'd
work all over town and we would infect all the
workers with our own brand of juvenile delinquency, which often
included once the movie theater was closed down for the night,
playing hide and go Seek at the theater with all

(36:38):
the employees, which was just great fun. Or sometimes you
get those giant cardboard standees is what they used to
call them. I don't know if they really have these
as much anymore. It seems like they all a lot
of them just hang on the wall. But you get
this giant piece of cardboard with like a huge like

(36:58):
a pair of heads. There's Ully Caulkin and Ted Dansing
getting even with Dad. That's a real movie. Look it up.
Does the quality of crap that we would get at
the park for a movie theater? We were rarely busy,
So we get this giant cardboard thing of McAuley, calkin
and Ted Danson's heads. I don't know how you don't

(37:20):
just take a bat to it. And so we would
destroy these things in various fashions and it was just
great fun. So we opened up the phones. What were
some ways that you would goof off at work? And
I don't remember any of your stories except one guy

(37:41):
called up said, I used to work at the Kellogg's plant.
Inside the Kellogg's plant, is this like giant ramp where
all the cereal comes down, Like we make the cereal
up here, it comes to the thing goes down the
deal and comes down this ramp into what I presume
I mean. I'm viewing it as like a water slide

(38:02):
and a big pool of corn flakes at the bottom.
And that just looks like great fun. I'm picturing something
out of Willie Walker's chocolate factory.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Here. Guy said, it was our job.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
We had these big shovels, big shovels, and our job
was to shovel out the cereal and then put it
into various receptacles. But every once in a while we
would take our giant shovels. We would go up to
the top of the ramp. Because there was really slippery ramp.
We'd go up to the top of it. We would
sit down or try and stand and surf on these

(38:37):
shovels and slide down this ramp and just go slamming
into the cereal at the bottom. And as far as
I'm concerned, that sounds like one of the greatest things ever.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
Did you eat that cereal?

Speaker 3 (38:54):
I would gladly eat someone's, you know, surfed on shovel
residue cereal. I'm sure it's fine. Yeah, I would no
qualms about anything I've ever eaten. You're disgusting, Thank you, Lucy.
That's the only story I remember from that time. So

(39:15):
when Dave wonders, you know, if some of the employees
are going to be doing weird stuff in there. Dude,
they already are, but not like what you're thinking. As
far as will these employees stay the entire time, Shelley
Emails says the employees will stay if they get a
lucrative severance package and any benefits or benefits any type

(39:37):
of retirement package. Additionally, if they're close to retirement, chances
are they'll stay as well. That's from Shelley. I don't
know how willing Kellogg's is. I mean, is it is
incumbent upon them now to say, all right, we already
told you we're going to shut the place down. You
know you're not going to have a job here in
a year or two. Yet we still I want you

(40:00):
to work. And you're either going to do that because
you're an idiot and you have nothing else to do
with your life, or we compensate you for your loyalty, like, yeah,
take your loyalty and shove it up. All right, calm down,
and you stay and then you transition to another job.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
That's great. In the meantime, we will pay you this much.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
I mean, if they want to continue operations here in
Omaha for the next year, or two. They got to
give the employees something make it worth their while. Still
bums me out. And then you got this other question,

(40:44):
And this is a question we have here in Omaha
all the time. You got this big building. Whether something's
been happening in there for sixty years is in the
case of the Kellogg's plant, or like six years the
business ends up moving to a different place or whatever.
Then you've got something we have way too much of

(41:06):
here in Omaha.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
It's a B A E B.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
That's a big empty building. I thought there was an
A in there. There is, I just didn't say it.
The B, A E B, the big empty building. I mean,
this is gonna be one of the most awesome spirit
Halloween stores.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Has ever seen.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
I have got the greatest idea for a building of
that size.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Please.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
It's a club membership and within this building there are
art studios. There is a roller rink, there is the
you know, the the simulator golf stuff, sure, and maybe
bumper cars, an arcade, ice cream parlor. It's a place

(41:59):
where you can go. You have to be a member,
and you can take the kids and you can feel
safe and you're like in a little city.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
Now here's the part of the show where Lucy says
she's glad she doesn't have kids.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
Because if you had kids, you would know that there
are so many places not quite with all of those
great things, but there are a lot of places around
town that are old grocery stores or department stores where
they just move in here and we have like here's
a trampoline park that also has miniature golf and virtual

(42:31):
reality stuff and a lot of these things you just mentioned.
We got warrior gym stuff. You can go climbing up
this and run across that and do all this stuff.
And here's a wall for you to climb in here.
We have this stuff all over town.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
No, I didn't hear roller rink in there at all.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
No, we only got the Bellevue right about the only
roller rink left round.

Speaker 4 (42:54):
I believe that is correct.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
So, yeah, this would be a cool place for it.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
But it would be a membership thing where you had
to pay a monthly fee whether you went or not,
But then you could go as much as you want.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
The country Club of screaming, screaming, vomiting over caffeinated.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
Kids, well, it would be separated. There'd be two sides
to it. Eighteen and over right.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
Yeah, you got your here's where the kids are and
then the adults are over here and kind of a
Dave and Buster is kind of a situation for.

Speaker 4 (43:26):
We could get Davon, Busters and the Skateland guys to
come back.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
Screw Dave and Buster. How about Lucy and Scott's.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
All right, but see they already know how to do
that part.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
All we could figure it out.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
Yeah, you've got enough time at Gizmo's.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yeah, w C Franks, Yes, the two for two w
C Franks references on the show this week. Yeah, and
you could make that big ramp or the cereal comes
down in there part of the roller experience.

Speaker 4 (43:56):
Yeah, and at the best skateboard.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
Right, I had a jump at the end. Seriously, what
do you do with a serial factory skate park? So
if someone if hey indoor skate park, mayor stothor good morning,
thank you very much for listening. And if she's not listening,
one of her minions is tasked with the job of
listening to every word I say and reporting back. First

(44:23):
of all, you look great today. Secondly, if you're not
already on the phone with Post, you're missing a tremendous opportunity.
General Mills or Yeah, or General Mills come to Omaha
and see this is the thing, though, who would be

(44:45):
working if Kellogg's is leaving this plant because the union
workers strong armed them into leaving again. As I reported
an hour ago, I reminded you of the lawsuit buy
Kellogg's to these striking workers only at the Omaha plant
went on strike, and I think all four of the
Kellogg's plants, but they only filed a lawsuit against the

(45:05):
Omaha plant said the striking workers were threatening other employees
and their families' lives, followed them home to where they
lived to threaten them and use racial slurs. They intimidated
non union staff. This is all led Yeah, and blocked
vehicles coming into and out of And I got an
email here from someone that says I was in the

(45:25):
middle of that strike. I worked at Blah blah blah.
I was yelled at when I would go there, and
every day my texts would get blocked, blocked from their entrances.
It sucked. I had a female tech and she got
harassed too. They brought this on themselves, the union workers
at Kellogg's get no pity from me, signed anonymous so

(45:50):
you figure Kellogg's like, yeah, Omaha, nice people, you know,
good Midwestern work ethic. And then yeah, hey, mister Kellogg.
I presume it's a guy named I presume Ron Kellogg
runs Kellogg's. Former see Ron Kellogg was a tremendous basketball

(46:11):
player and his son a nice quarterback for Nebraska. So
I presume it's that family. I presume Ron Kellogg runs Kellogg's.
They call him up and go, hey, Ron. The nice
people in Omaha are following non union workers home and
threatening their lives. Why are they doing that in Memphis,
the or Battlecreek, Michigan. No, no, no, Omaha, Nah, they

(46:33):
wouldn't do that in Omaha. Good people in Omaha, nice people,
Midwestern as salt of the earth people, you know, morons.
There's your seventies movie reference for this segment of the program.
It's the same movie I referenced earlier. What is it battle?
John emails Scott at kfab dot com. We're going back

(46:54):
to the storm on this one. It says when Lucy
asks what difference does it?

Speaker 4 (47:02):
Difference does it make?

Speaker 3 (47:03):
That's Hillary also asking that the question that came up there.
We were talking about curbside tree debris collection. And I
said they're going to start on Thursday. I don't know
that the curbside debris collection coincides with your regular trash day.
In fact, I would I would have to presume that

(47:27):
it probably wouldn't, because if you have the FCC trucks
going around on the same route as the guys doing
tree debris, that they would kind of be in each
other's way a little bit. So I would think that
maybe if your trash pickup day is Thursday, that they
also wouldn't. But I don't know. They said that just

(47:48):
put your debris by the curb. There are no limits
on You don't have to have them cut to a
certain length, you don't have to bundle them. Just throw
all of that stuff out there on the curb, and
we'll get it when we can get it. And it's
gonna be probably a month before it's all collected. The
good news is you might have your power back by then.

(48:12):
By the way, we now are down to thirteen thousand,
six hundred and ninety nine customers. Of course, the bulk
of those in Douglas County twelve seven hundred and seventy
five homes still without electricity in the oppd coverage area.
So curbside pickup to tree debris starts on Thursday. I
don't know when they're coming out to your neighborhood, but

(48:36):
like I said, don't call the mayor or the police
if it's Tuesday. And how come you guys haven't picked
up my stuff yet? They said it's gonna be three
to four weeks before they get all of it. I
look at some of these streets and go, it could
take a full day just for this street, let alone

(48:56):
this whole quadrant of town. So you said, what difference
does it make?

Speaker 4 (49:01):
What?

Speaker 2 (49:02):
I don't remember what that was.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
When they pick it up. Well, I mean, you've already
got it at the curve. Are you going to pull
it back and put it spread it back out around
your yard? I mean, really, what difference does it make.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Try and delicately put it back in the trees? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (49:20):
I just noticed the other day, and I'm hoping that
once the tree kind of settles after last week's storm,
that we don't have this anymore. But one of our
trees in the backyard suddenly has a kind of a
big area in the middle of it where there's no
tree there. Oh, like, oh, that doesn't look very good
at all.

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Are there wires running through the top of it?

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Not yet?

Speaker 4 (49:41):
Well, it could be that. I can hear it now
that if you leave the leaves and the sticks and
the logs, it's killing the grass.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Yeah, well the grass.

Speaker 4 (49:51):
And I get that.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
Well, I would think the grass would be going dormant.
But except now with the temperature, you know, getting really
great here. For the rest of the week, your lawn's
gonna like that, and you're not gonna be able to
mow under there. I wonder though, if someone's gonna complain. Yeah,
the tree debris is push it over onto the sidewalk,
and I can't.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Walk my dog. He can't walk my dog these trees.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
We had a lot of New Yorkers trying to walk
down here.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
Yes, he told me I can come to Nebraska and
walk my dog.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
John says when Lucy asks what difference does it make?
I agree with her. But she obviously hasn't had a
neighbor who's usually quite neurotic, who can't stand to have
one single branch in their yard for one single moment
and has to rush out there and grab that one
branch out of the yard after it lands in their yard.
Can you imagine what this windstorm did to the psychoses

(50:47):
of these people. Uh yeah, I'm one of these people.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
We've heard many stories of you taking walks in your
neighborhood and pulling up weeds from other people's sidewalks.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
I've done it and and and I'll do it again.
What I'm not going to buy weed from other people
to smoke. I'll just pull it out of the cracks.
So your driveway not that kind of weed. Yeah, I
wondered because I smoked that stuff a lot and it
doesn't seem to do anything. Other people are like, oh,
hey man, there's a great time. I'm like, this is

(51:20):
a bad concert. By the way, I went to a
great concert on Friday night. Steelhouse el King opening act
was Zach Miller, former guest in this program. Zach Miller,
uno football star, went on to play several season in
the NFL. Notably, I should have caught a touchdown pass
for the Chicago Bears, but his legs snapped and they
had to wheel him off the field. And we talked

(51:41):
to him on the show. Yeah, when we talked to
him on the show, I said, and how did you
feel later when you found out that they called the
pass incomplete and he went nuts. He's like, I totally
caught that pass.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Like, I agree with you.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
So, Zach Miller is the opening a great show, super
fun crowd, and as usually the case is with any concert,
at some point you smell weed. Whether you're going to
see Kansas or Jefferson Airplane or Imagination Movers, some kids
group Kids Bop is in town. You know, you still

(52:18):
at any concert, like your kid's Christmas program at their
elementary school, someone is smoking weed and you can smell it.
So of course we're there enjoying the show, and then
from behind us, like someone's smoking weed. You kind of
look around just to see. Usually you try to figure
out who it is, and it's usually someone who you know,

(52:39):
maybe took a quick toke or real secretly. Not this
guy right in the middle of everyone just firing up
a big old pot rocket and smoking it without trying
to hide what he was doing, didn't give a rip of.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
Did he get thrown out? No, but you're not supposed
the smoking there.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
I know.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
But I think even security looked at that guy and
was like, yeah, you know what, you know, why bother
with this guy? Scott Board Lucy finally ditched me. She
had to leave today. She's she's gonna you know, you
schedule these things and you don't know what the weather

(53:23):
is going to be like when you do. So, Lucy
who moonlights on our sister station, Omaha's Greatest hits ninety
nine point nine kgoar. Lucy's got to go represent kgoar
at Funplex. The current temperature is sixty eight degrees and cloudy.

(53:44):
Have fun being out of fun Plex by yourself. Well,
I mean not really, I mean Funplex is more than
the water park. I think she's at the water park though, Well,
you want to go there for the other stuff. You
can go there for the other stuff, and you go
see Lucy. I hope they throw her in the pool.
It's gonna be freezing. Ditch me here in this to anyway,
I saw two different news stories and heard yesterday this variation.

(54:07):
In fact, this story here from KMTV three news now
quote the city of Omaha will collect tree debris from
neighborhood streets. It will start Thursday, but could take weeks
or up to a month to complete. I think that's
the same phrasing I saw from WWT and or KETV

(54:31):
as well. So we reported that this morning. I guess
they're not going to start this till Thursday. Now I
got all these emails, Howard says, I live at seventieth
in Country Club Road. Yesterday morning, my limbs were picked
up by the Omaha street workers. This email from Kathy.

(54:52):
City had a caravan of trucks and a front loader
yesterday in our neighborhood picking up trees, et cetera. They
did a great job. Just got elect trisity last night,
so thanks to everyone. It's from Kathy. I don't know
where Kathy lives, but I will find you, Kathy. Sorry
did I say that out loud? So Sarah says, we

(55:12):
don't have our trees down to the curb yet. It'd
be helpful to know when they're going to be picked
up so we can make sure to have it down there.
Being in Benson, we have limited space where to put
this debris anyway, you know, I guess get it out
there now. Todd says, they just picked up my curb
side stuff about ten minutes ago, and it kind of

(55:35):
sucks because I wasn't ready and they probably won't come back. Todd,
I sadly think that you're probably accurate there. They probably
won't come back now what Well, the tree debris drop
off sites are still open until August fourteenth. Yesterday they
announced that toll Tal Park I hear some call it

(55:57):
toll some call it Towel Park was closed because it
was full. I don't know if it's still closed. I
try and get to someplace else in the debris drop
off sites, but they're going to remain open through the fourteenth.
That's a week from tomorrow. So if you haven't put

(56:22):
your stuff out by the curb, and you're wondering, did
I miss it?

Speaker 2 (56:26):
Why? Don't know?

Speaker 3 (56:26):
Look up and down your street. Did everyone else put
their stuff by the curb? Is it gone? You missed it?
Did everyone else put their stuff out by the curb?
Is it still there? Then you're good. Get it out
by the curb. And as far as everyone who's gonna
call the cops going.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
I'm trying to walk.

Speaker 3 (56:47):
You know, the kids are gonna be going and this
is gonna happen because it's going to be like up
to a month for this tree pickup at the curb
side to go on, which means kids are going to
be walking along the sidewalk when they start school next week.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
Mid August.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
And like, well, my kid can't go to this. So
you're gonna have a combination of two people complaining about this.
First you have the people going, my kid can't walk
along the sidewalk because there's a bunch of tree debris.
And I can always tell my kid, don't walk in
people's yards.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
It's rude.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
Don't walk in people's yards. People who live on the
corner lot are like kids walk through my yard all
the time anyway, So I tell my kids don't walk
through people's yards, stay out of their yards. And they
dutifully stayed on the sidewalk, and they went into a
giant pile of tree debris. And we haven't seen them since.
I think they've crossed into Narnia. I don't know where

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they are. So you're gonna have that problem. Look, calm down,
walk around the debris, not in the street, walk in
the yard. Which also causes the other problem the homeowners.
These little brands keep walking through my yard. It's because
your sidewalk is blocked, madam. Contact your friends at where

(58:03):
you completed finishing school and they'll talk you through this situation. Now,
Kellogg's ninety sixth and F Streets, where the Kellogg's plant
has been there for sixty years. So what are they
going to do after they shut this thing down here?
They announced this morning they'll phase most of the stuff

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out there in a year, be fully closed in two years.
I would anticipate it's probably shorter than then. I said,
what are you going to do with this giant factory?
This plant is production plant. What happens to it? We
got a lot of babs in Omaha, big empty buildings,

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b a eb's, big empty buildings? Are you picking up
on the So what do we do with it?

Speaker 4 (58:54):
Well?

Speaker 3 (58:54):
We got some ideas, Dave says, how about a future
multi level homeless encampment complete with the playground, easy interstate
and railroad access. Thank you, Dave, very helpful. Steve says,
the developer is gonna buy it, and Mayor Jean is
going to extend the streetcar out to ninety six. Could

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be a good place to keep the street cars, clean
them up and all that. Steve says, keep up the
good work. I've been listening to your show forever. Actually,
he says, I've been listening to you forever. I don't
know if he just means today it feels like forever.
Or if he's really been listening forever? Have I been
here forever? Actually, it's eighteen years ago this week. That's

(59:40):
when I started here on news radio eleven ten kfab.
It's kind of forever, a lot longer than everyone thought
i'd last. I remember your emails. Craig says, I work
in the bulk material handling and pneumatic conveying, and I
believe him because he's spelled pneumatic correctly. I think one

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reason for Kellogg's leaving is the age of the building
and the age of the equipment inside. It's probably ani
probably an inefficient plant to run, and too expensive to
make this plant to take it up to modern specs.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Could be.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
I don't know the age of their other Kellogg's plants.
Kyle says, speaking of Bab's big empty buildings, what about
the mutual building, the current mutual building, what's going to
happen there? Mixed income housing, luxury apartments seems to be
the new Omaha standard for open space. Well, we can't

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have enough of mixed use developments, especially housing. I don't
know that. I don't know they're going to treat the
Kellogg's plant as a Oh yeah, some apartment complex is
going to come in there and turn it all into
I don't know, but they could. It could be a
you know know, pretty cool mixed use development. You get

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some you got to get your your bar, your little
grocery convenience store there, of course, your place where you
like drink scotch and get a haircut and your beard trimmed.
You got to have all these different stores there. Place
to get is i e. Bowls right there on the
on the bottom level. And then you could do a

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couple of levels there of apartments and like loft apartments
living there in the Kellogg's plant. That could be cool.
Probably it'll just be Spirit Halloween store starting in August.
Costco already has the Halloween stuff out. Did I say
that the other day? Well, they do rob emails and

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says I went into the Olive Garden yesterday and noticed
that Spirit Halloween is already open at the Gateway Mall
and Lincoln. It's August, all right. There's just some things
that I'm not resistant to change. But I will probably

(01:02:07):
spend the better part of the next decade bemoaning the
fact that kids go back to school earlier and earlier,
and Halloween season begins earlier and earlier, and begins overlapping
with the already summer start of the Christmas season. But
you know, you live your life the way you want to,
and I'll just judge you loudly on the radio. It's

(01:02:32):
a good relationship. I like my part in it. We
have a Husker as our potential next Vice President of
the United States, kind of a Husker as today co
President Kamala Harris picked a running mate. It's Minnesota Governor
Tim Walls. Tim Waltz is now in his second term

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as governor of Minnesota. He was five times representative in
one of their i think their first congressional district, going
back to two thousand and six. He was there for
about a decade, but before that, this guy was born
in West Point, Nebraska, raised in Valentine. A graduate in

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nineteen eighty two a Butte High School, attended Chadron State
College and taught. He returned to Nebraska after teaching abroad
for a year. He taught at Alliance High School. Was
assistant coach for the high school's football and basketball teams.
The story here from KETV News Watch seven, and in

(01:03:41):
nineteen ninety three was named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by
the Nebraska Junior Chamber of Commerce in nineteen ninety three
for his service and education military and small business communities.
And you're thinking nineteen ninety three, like thirty years ago,
how was he outstanding young Nebraskan thirty years ago? Isn't

(01:04:02):
the guy like eighty? No offense to Governor Wallts. He
looks like he's about eighty. He's only sixty. He's a
wise looking sixty years old. That's a nice way of
saying he looks old. So deep Husker roots with this one,
but we also have deep progressive roots with this one.

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How was it that Tim Waltz got this nod? What
has he done recently? I mean, Minnesota's already a pretty
strong Democratic stronghold for that party. They generally win statewide
elections up there. The Democratic presidential contender has got a
safe lead up there. What did he do here recently? Well,
he's the one that called JD. Vance weird recently this

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is when he looked at J. D. Waltz and says,
you know, I don't like what has happened. You can't
even go to Thanksgiving dinner with their your uncle because
you end up in some weird fight that's unnecessary. These
guys are just weird talking about JD. Vance and Donald Trump,
so we'll see what more we hear from him. Can't

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wait for that Vance Waltz vice presidential debate details to come.

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