February 20, 2025 • 57 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez. I finished Cobra Kai last night, and it
is absolutely the most asinine and ridiculous TV series of
all time. It's like they got together and said, what
if we we do a show based on this premise?
And they said that's crazy, and then they just made
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it crazier and crazier and they're like, what if we
did this? Like is this too over the top? And
then they just kept doing it and doing it, and
I just kept cheering them on and cheering them on,
like dumber, bigger and dumber, and then it finally topped
out the biggest, dumbest thing I've ever seen, and I
loved it. So more of that, please. It's just absolutely
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so much fun. And we finished that series last night.
Binged that baby in just a couple of nights, because
you know, I got a lot going on in my life,
so then I couldn't sleep. I just kept all night
thinking about that stupid show. I don't know why I
get so emotionally invested in these shows, and I don't
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know that it's even so much the shows. I think
that if you binge watch anything, if you sit there
and watch several hours of program over two nights. I
think it does impact your brain, just tossing and turning
all night, going well, what about this? Or what could this?
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And what about that? And I'm just waking up and
looking at the clock. It's just I think binge watching
TV shows is dangerous for the brain. So that's where
my brain is this morning. I'm not going to do
any more of that for the foreseeable future. We just
went all in on that series and now and I
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don't have a new series. I'm not watching anything right now.
When does Stranger Thinks new season come out? Anyway, I
think that probably the best place to start here is
what took up most of the year during kfab's morning news.
I'm still getting emails about it here sent to Scott
atkfab dot com in the Zonkers custom Woods inbox, and
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it has to do with I guess the topic is
the homeless issue in Omaha. But the new topic is
what a mayoral candidate said about the homeless services coordinator
in Omaha and what the current mayor is saying in
terms of defending said homeless services coordinator in Omaha. A
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few years ago, Omaha Mayor Jene Stothard had hired to
be Omaha's homeless coordinator, a woman named Tamara Dwyer. She's
been a guest on this program. She's been in the
studio and we've talked about this issue, which I said,
I see this problem getting worse in Omaha, and I
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would prefer that that be the focus of the conversation.
What Mike McDonell, the mayoral challenger here, said to Gary
Sadlemeyer and Jim Rose on kfab's Morning News this morning
was that he also sees this homeless issue in Omaha
getting worse. He blames the services Coordinator for Omaha and
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Omaha Mayor Jean Stothard, and that's why he said, I
went to this event on Saturday and said that the
services coordinator is a DEI hire. And what he said
was that, yeah, she was hired with federal money three
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months after Mayor Stothard signed a DEI agreement with the
National League of Cities. Now tomorrow morning, that's that's that
was a couple of hours ago on kfab's Morning News.
We'll get that Slicy diceed post on the podcast link
on the morning NewsPage at kfab dot com later this
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morning and tomorrow morning at the same time, seven thirty five,
Omaha Mahror Jean Stothart is going to come on and
address this issue. I presume one of the things addressed
is the accusation that Meyristoth signed a DEI agreement with
the National League of Cities. I'm curious to hear Meyristoth
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respond to that, because it's my understanding that there were
cities that signed up with this National League of Cities,
and somewhere buried within this agreement is some sort of
language on DEI. I don't think it's just like all right,
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and now sign here. Here's your DEI agreement. Sign here.
They're just passing papers around. I don't think that's how
this worked. Of course, Mayri Stothert is seizing on that, saying,
so my McDonald says that this person was hired as
a DEI hire. Well, her diversity, I guess in this
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case is the fact that she is of the female persuasion.
So is Mike McDonald not going to hire women if
he's elected mayor of Omaha? Does he think that any
woman who's been hired for any job as a DEI hire?
Does he think that women aren't qualified to do anything
but bring him a beer, you know. So that's kind
of the tone coming from Mayor Stothard on this. Mike
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McDonald just said, no, she was hired with federal funding
after there was a DEI agreement signed, and then he
tried to pivot back on. But what I think is
is that I think she and the City of Omaha
are doing a bad job on the homeless front. And
I think that there were a lot of people in
kfab Nation listening to that because we drive around this city.
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We see it, maybe not so much this week, but
we see the homeless issues on especially nice days and
nights and evenings. We see it in the streets, we
see it under the overpasses. Some people living in neighborhoods,
they see it. If you've got an area with any
trees anywhere around, there's probably a pretty good chance someone's
living in there. I live out in West Omaha near
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one hundred and sixty eighth in Maple Like, where does
someone live out there? Under the bridge on Maple Street
just east of one hundred and sixty eight. That's I
told the story about how my son and his friends
were exploring the creek underneath that bridge, and that's when
my son told me that that's what they were doing.
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I said, well, you got to be really careful under there,
and he said, yeah, that's what the guy who lives
under there told us. There's also some tunnels that go
under there, and we have seen evidence of people living
in those tunnels. And this is in a fashionable West
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Olma neighborhood. Be that as it may, and it's like
that all over town. This issue has gotten out of control.
So Mike McDonald's calling attention to that, and then when
pressed on so what are you going to do about it?
His answer seems to be, well, we need to have
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like a homeless encampment that's like, you know where where
people are paying for it in the city of Omaha.
Says okay, you guys can all live here and we've
got services and like water and electric Like are you
talking about a koa campground for the homeless? First of all,
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where in Omaha is that going to be? Second of all,
how do you force people to live there? If the
issue is is we can't criminalize homelessness, how do you
force people like say, you can't live over here, you
have to live here with all the other homeless people.
And you talk to homeless people, and I've talked to
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homeless people, and I've talked with the people who deal
and talk with homeless people, and a lot of what
they say is For example, there was a story the
other night where police picked up a guy and said,
you're out here on the streets. We're going to take
you someplace warm where you can get some soup in
a blanket and you can stay in the warmth. And
he said, I don't want to go. Why not cause
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they're going to steal my stuff. He's talking about other
homeless people. Why do you think that there are people
spread out all across the area and they don't all
congregate in this area just north of the baseball stadium
downtown where there's a huge homeless encampment. A lot of
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it ends up being on private business land. That's a
major issue. But why do you think there are people
spread out from that Because some of the people who
are in that encampment basically act like gang war lords.
Oh you want to live in this area, and you
got to pay the piper, And if you're a woman
in there, you're going to be attacked if you come
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up there with anything, including something really fancy like shoes.
They're going to be taken from you. It's a horrible,
dangerous situation. And what should happen is someone with the
City of Omaha should just say, all right, let's talk.
You can't live out here, and if they protest, say
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all right, I'll tell you what. We're not going to
give you a tent. We're not going to give you
a sleeping bag. We're not going to give you food.
We're not going to give you something to drink, we're
not going to give you any medicine. Here's what you're
going to give you. Here's sixty bucks. It'll pay you
and we're and it's in the form of a bus ticket.
Get on this bus. Here are a list of cities
that apparently want homeless people living there. It's better climate,
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they have more opportunities for you to live on the streets.
Did I mention it's warmer? Where do you want to go?
All right? But one bus ticket to San Francisco. It's
gonna be a little bit more than sixty bucks. But
I'll tell you what. We'll pay it boon voyage, you know.
And that's probably the best thing that Omaha can do,
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because as soon as we send the signal you can't
live on the streets in Omaha, then people stop coming
here to live on the streets. We've seen this problem
get worse here in the last few years. We need
to stop pacifying this. And when Mike McDonald says this
is a horrible problem and I've seen it get worse,
and the people Omaha go yeah, and then he says,
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what I would he need is like a dedicated homeless
encampment where all these people can live in the city
of Omaha and the taxpayers will pay for And then
people omar are like, what wait, wait, what No, I
know that's going to create more homelessness. As soon as
the message goes out like, hey, you can come to Omaha.
We got a nice you got campgund camp. You know,
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you got camping hookups and all that stuff, and people
will basically take care of you. And we might have
some tiny houses and all the rest of this, you're
gonna have more of this problem. So Mike McDonald was
a guest with Gary and Jim this morning at seven
thirty five. Mayor Stoth's going to be a guest with
Gary and Jim tomorrow morning at seven thirty five. Don't
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miss this that's coming up tomorrow morning. What is one
of the big reasons why there are so many people
who don't have the mental wherewithal not to live on
the streets. I think it's this issue, and there is
a local advocate who agrees it's a bad issue, but
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on a different front. Mark Welsh has come back up
for air. If you're familiar with that name, we'll talk
about it next. Scott Voices News Radio eleven ten. Lucy
Chapman is here. Good morning, Lucy Chapman, Good morning. What's
going on with your bad self?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Oh? You know, I would tell you, but then you know,
you know what.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
They say, you'd have to kill me.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
No, I just couldn't be friends with you anymore.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
No one says that. No one's ever said that.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
They've said it in your head.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Let me tell you how normal people talk to each other. Hey, Lucy,
hey doing I'm great, you fantastic. Thanks. That's how normal
people converse.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I don't know what you heard, but that is exactly
what I said.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You said back. If if you told me how you
were doing, we couldn't be friends anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Some people are saying I've listened to you guys, I
don't think you're friends now fair, Yeah, Lucy and I
don't play well with others. That's why they put us
in two different studios and say all right, talk on
the radio. And I said at the start of the program,
my brain feels mired. It's the word I think I'll
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use here. Could not sleep. And when I woke up
this morning, it was one of those things where I
kept looking at the clock, falling back asleep, waking up,
looking at the clock, three minutes have gone by, fall
back asleep, look at the clock, three minutes a gone by.
And then when I finally I got to get up,
I didn't feel like I was fully awake. I'm not
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sure I'm awake. Now. Let me tell you something dumb
that my weird brain did this morning. I put on
these pants and then I thought, now I got to
put on a belt, and then I thought, I don't
want to put on a belt, and so I'm not
wearing a belt. What do you think of that?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That is a weird glimpse one side of the life
of Scott Vorhe's pulling the curtain back a little bit. There, strange,
I've got there.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
These are big comfortable pants, and I'm wearing it with
my big comfortable shirt. This is the same outfit that
Darcy Dingman saw me wearing, uh, I don't know, last
year sometime and said those pants in that shirt don't
fit you.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
And I said, insulter, was it a compliment?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I think it was just a factual observance. And I
said such things, and I said, I know, uh, these
are these are big. They're not jeans, and they're not slacks.
They're just black like almost like khaki pants, except they're
black and they're big. And I'm wearing them today because
I got my boots on. Now I can't wear a
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fashionable little pair of whether they're you know, khaki pants
and you know, some nice fitting navy slacks or something
with with these boots, because they're gonna scrunch up at
the top of the boots and all look ridiculous. So
now I just wear wearing these giant mc hammer pants.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
We call those glax.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Am I galaxing, You're galaxing cool. So that's what's going
on with me today. And I'm very cozy, and I'm
not sure I'm awake right now. I think I'm probably
putting people to sleep. That's dangerous, especially especially if you're driving.
I'm sorry Mark Welsh will remember this name. Mark Mark
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is the president of the Group to Alleviate Smoking Pollution
aka GASP is the name of this organization. He was
the one who years ago said we shouldn't have any
smoking in any Omaha businesses. He led that charge to
ban smoking from your bars and your restaurants and your businesses.
That was probably going back sixteen or so years. Bro
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longer than ten.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Is it longer than Yeah, it's been.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It was shortly after I got here and I've been
here eighteen years, so he did that. Well. Now Mark
Welsh is back from outer space. He just showed up
with that ooh, who's smoking? Look upon his face scrunched yes.
And the front that he is fighting on right now
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is medical marijuana. Now that medical marijuana is legal in Nebraska,
he says it's legal to smoke medical marijuana in in
home daycare as long as kids aren't present. You can
smoke in your in home daycare otherwise known as your
house when kids aren't there. You can smoke your medical
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marijuana in hotel rooms designated to smoking rooms, in other words,
a place where smoking is legal. You can smoke in
foster homes otherwise known as in your own home.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh, I thought you meant the foster kids.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
No, you can smoke while driving a car. You can
smoke while driving a car, otherwise known as in your car.
You can smoke in parks and any other outdoor property
otherwise known as.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Outside that's not allowed.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You can smoke while walking on a public sidewalk, otherwise
known as outside.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I can see where he's got to be losing his mind.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
All right, so he's really mad about all of this.
Now he's wrong on one front, but he's right on
another one.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
He's right on a couple of them actually.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
On all this. Well, let's let's get back on this
after a Fox News update. Next, Lucy and I were
just chatting about the president of the Group to Alleviate
Smoking Pollution, gasp Mark Welsh, who led the charge years
ago to get smoking out of Omaha's bars and restaurants.
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Well now he's back, and he says, since medical marijuana
is a legal drug in Nebraska, he wants businesses to
be able to prevent their employees or customers from smoking
it indoors, and he's specifically looking at places where he says,
looks to me like medical marijuana may be smoked in
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places like in home daycares otherwise known as your home,
as long as no kids are in the business, in
hotel rooms designated to smoking rooms. In other words, places
where smoking is allowed in uh foster homes otherwise known
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as your house. Driving a car, any vehicle, I don't
think that's accurate. You can't, you're not. You probably shouldn't
be allowed to smoke marijuana while driving, right, even though
everyone would think apparently does it. I smell it as
I'm coming to work in the morning. I smell it
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coming from other vehicles. And then he says you can.
You can smoke at parks, in any outdoor property or
on a public sidewalk, yep, it's outside. And in multi
family dwellings forcing neighbors to breathe secondhand marijuana smoke, Well,
that one's a sticky issue, because if you're multifamily dwelling
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allows you to smoke in there, that's whatever one I
guess signed up for. I don't want to smell other
people's anything coming from a multifamily dwelling, whether that's something
like a duplex or an apartment complex, or a condo
or something like that. When you start smelling your neighbors,
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no matter what they're doing, it's usually not a good smell.
It's not like, oh cinnamon, you know, it's it's usually
something awful.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You're really gonna hate the fifteen minute cities.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I know, where everyone just right on top of each other,
we all live. That's what they're pushing us into doing.
They all want us to live. And basically, you ever see, Lucy,
I know you love golf as much as I do,
just play along. In places like Korea and Japan, we've
got these like multi level high rise places. Because it's
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in a concrete jungle, there's no golf courses there, there's
no room to play golf, and people don't really have
the transportation the wherewithal to be able to drive to
the countryside to go find a really expensive golf course.
So instead we've got like the Woodman Tower erected here,
and it's all a driving range, and so you're on
different levels of the driving range and you're all hitting
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golf balls out to this thing like a top golf
kind of a thing, except it's not. Rather than being
one or two stories high, it's like twenty stories high,
and it's just crazy. And that's how they want us
all to live in just big high rises where that's
our only option. But I want to go out and
have a little more space. Nope, you're in Bay number
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level eighteen, Bay six, that's where you live.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
But I get a green or something. Yeah, you get
a hutting green.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
You get a small bucket of balls.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
A small bucket of balls, but not a putting green.
All right, fine? And also real quick, I want to
know where you're driving in the morning, where the people
you're driving by are having some kind of phone already
in the morning.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Down Maple pretty much the entire straight stretch of Maple Street.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
That is a party place.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Two three times a week I drive by people who
are smoking marijuana and I can smell it, you know,
in my vehicle coming from their vehicle. Why not, it's
not you. I hear you on the radio. You're already
He's a joke.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Wasn't me two thousand songs?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
So yes, thank you for that two thousand song reference?
Wasn't me the ding um?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So we both say, what is right about.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
He said that in these areas where kids might be
present in home daycare is your foster home. That's something
like that. He says children need and deserve to breathe
clean air. Forcing children to breathe smoky air makes them sick. Well,
if that were the case, we'd all be sick. Everyone
who grew up in the seventies and eighties would all
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be just struggling to breathe, dying of emphasema from the
second hand smoke that all of us grew up with.
So that's one and many of us are not actively
dying of some sort of amphasema. So we got that
going for us, which is nice. Ding. Sorry, I'm not
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I'm too lazy today to reach over and hit the ding.
I didn't even put a belt on this morning.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Do you put a belt on with glax?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah? I always wear a belt. It just feels wrong
not to. I'm not wearing one. I was like, I
don't want to, man, So that was caddyshack, by the way,
um trying to regain the train of thought. Oh kids, Yeah,
well there's kids, and that there's also the idea here
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that the medical marijuana laws that are now in effect
to Nebraska, that everyone is just walking around smoking marijuana.
This is not accurate. Medical marijuana is in nearly every
single instance, it's something it's like a cream, a balm,
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an ointment, a liniment, a lotion, a potion. It's it's
something like that, or it's like it's some sort of
ingestible thing that you have, like like a pill. It's
not something like, uh, oh, you got gout here. Here's
this giant spleef you know here to take this home
and just start dubling it up, you know. It's it's
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like doctors generally don't give you a prescription of something
that you smoke, so it's something it's it's ingestibles and
lotions and things like that here everywhere. But Mark Welsh
also points out that this whole thing, and this is
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a big thing we talked about with medical Marijuanas this
conversation went on and on and on. In the state
of Nebraska, this system gets abused, and in this press
release from the group to Alleviate Smoking Pollution says soon
after Colorado legalized medical marijuana in the year two thousand,
my cousin who lives in Salida, Colorado, told me there
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were doctors getting very rich by writing prescriptions for marijuana.
They would charge people one hundred bucks to see them
for five minutes, then write them a prescription so they
could buy or grow their own so called medical marijuana.
It was common knowledge that all you had to tell
the doctor is that you had pain or cramps, and
they'd give you a prescription for it. There were doctors
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who saw people for only that reason, and that's consistent
with what I've heard from other people who worked in
this game in other states. Arizona is a big one,
Colorado is another one. It's a joke in many instances.
A great example was I think I think it was
I think it was Pennsylvania that a few years back
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said all right, we're going to allow some medical marijuana,
but you have to apply for a special certification to
be able to write prescriptions for medical marijuana. We don't
want this to be right with abuse. And so one
of these doctors who got it was an obgyn. And
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as soon as it was released, like here's the list
of doctors who prescribed this, suddenly her waiting room was
full of men like, sir, this is an obgyn. Yeah,
this is not. This is not your doctor's office. But
I have a general malaise like it's it is abused.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
But then they couldn't use that criteria today just because
a bunch of men showed up in the obgyn doctor's office.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I know, you know one of the the favorite phrases
of obguyns is today, what is it in twenty twenty five? Like, sir,
I'd love to give you a PAP smear, but your
testicles are in the way.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I see. Yeah, I am just shocked.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
It's science.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I am just shocked that a doctor anywhere, even one,
much less probably dozens, hundreds of doctors would lie. I'm shocked.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Let's not throw all doctors. I'm not under the lucybus.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I'm not. I'm saying hundreds out of what millions of doctors, Yes,
very small percentage. I'm just shocked that they would lie
about stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
No, you're not. You're being sarcastic. I'm fluent in sarcasm,
are you. Yes? So my thing here is all right,
we're getting out bent out of shape about the possibility
of secondhand smoke, that people will be allowed to smoke
in their home. Let's just address that because that's his
big concern. So once again, what he's not, what he's
doing is he's not concerned about kids secondhand smoke. He
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doesn't want you smoking anything that you be allowed to
smoke in your own home. Mark once again. And we've
told you this a lot. Mind your business, Mind yo business.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Why are you worried about somebody else's kids When the
parents have the ability to say, I don't want to
take my kids to your daycare because you smoke marijuana
in your house. That is perfectly fine for a parent
to say that. So now doesn't it now fall upon
the parent. It's not the person in the house. If
the person in the house is I've got a medical
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condition and I have to smoke this marijuana and it's
in my house, but I won't do it while kids
are around. Oh, but then we have the third hand
marijuana residue or something. Yeah, which is fine. That's fine
if that's what you want to say yes or no to.
Then it is upon the parents to say I don't care,
I don't believe in third whatever. Then it slips to them.
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So what, I don't like smoke booking marijuana. I don't
like the smell at all. But it is up to
a business. It is up to a person what they're
going to do. And I choose not to go there
or I choose not to hang out with him. Ah,
look at me with my own ability to choose.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
How about that? Mark tells the story here in this
press release that he reached out to the Douglas County
Health Department, and I imagine that's probably a daily or
even by hourly occurrence. Doctor Hughes. Mark Welsh is on
the line, Oh yeah, must be a day that ends
in why He says, I'd said I was in a
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very smoky in home daycare. He said, I was helping
a friend remodel this woman's bathroom. Mark Welsh is now
also in addition to being a busy body, anti smoke
Nazi and a beekeeper, we learned about him in the
last few years, he's also a beekeeper. Apparently he's also
a remodeler.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
He's an all around kind of game Mark.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
And two anything. So what's still one of my favorite
moments in the history of this radio shows. Mark was
in the studio and he says like, look, I don't
like these policies where big government tells people what to do.
After all, I'm a Republican and I couldn't speak. I
just stared at him and he had a look on
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his face. Like, yeah, what do you think of that?
Because he just loves pushing. He is a habitual linestepper.
To quote the great Charlie Murphy.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Well, how about this. I am terrified of bees. Scared
to death of bees. I don't think that they should
be allowed to be raised in backyards. I think that
they should only be raised in places where there is
a barrier between me and the bees.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
No, don't worry about bees. Don't worry about bees.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I'm not. I'm just I'm illustrating the point.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah, what you don't want is someone raising yellowjackets.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Those a problem.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
That's the army of horrible little jerks that just like
and we're gonna bite you, and we're gonna sting you.
We're gonna bite you, and we're gonna sting you. We're
all gonna gang up on you just because we don't
like to look on your face. They're horrible. Yellow jackets
are the ones that you hate, not bees. Don't worry
about bees.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I don't really hate bees, all right, See sounds like
you do. I don't, so are you anyway?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
No, I don't want to fight about it.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Move on.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
So, yeah, I'm trying. I am trying. He says, I'm
helping a friend remodel this woman's bathroom in her in
home daycare. And she said, and he said, I saw
this woman smoking in her downstairs bedroom and bathroom.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yes, an, why was he looking at her in the bathroom?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Right? Help on your model the bathroom. We're like, ma'am,
if you could just slide over a little bit here,
we're trying to install this shower curtain rod. And she's
like this bathroom and she's like, I'll be done in
a second, you know, like anyway smoking and all right,
So the health department told me, simply smelling smoke is
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not a violation of the law. He said, I just
smelled smoke in this woman's house.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
But he didn't see the smoke. He didn't see her smoking.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
He says, I saw the owner smoking in the downstairs
bedroom and bathroom. Right, the health department told me, simply
smelling smoke or seeing ashtrays full of cigarette butts, it's
not a violation of the law. They would have to
see someone smoking inside while a client slash child was
there at the daycare for them to be able to
say the law was being broken. So Mark doesn't want
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you to smoke in your own home. Okay, that's uh yeah, okay,
thanks for letting us know. Martin just he's he got
back in the news there, and I couldn't resist the
temperature streat.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I'm glad to see him back in the news.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Yeah. So there we talked. We talked this hour about
Mike and Jean, a little ditty about Mike and Jean.
They're running from mayor. We talked about Mark and coming
up after this next opportunity for un to win one
thousand dollars. At ten oh five, we're going to talk
about unikite. Oh, you don't know unicyite?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Kite?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Unikite?
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Is it anything to do with unicorns?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
All right, just one.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Kite, unikite. You want to talk about unikite?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Every TV station in town has this story, and I
would prefer in the future, when a guy named Jason
has an issue with his two year old daughter, just
call me. We'll put you on the radio, we'll talk
to you. I don't need you to go to all
the TV stations and do this. No one called me.
I was probably probably too busy on the radio plane
DJ last night when all the TV stations were talking
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to Jason. Jason has a two year old daughter. She
came into this world by way of birth at home,
and he and the daughter's mom were split up at
the time and for several months. And there was also
the chance that this girl that was born was not
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his daughter. I didn't say this was a romantic Valentine's
Day story or anything.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Ye know, we're past that.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yeah, We're just it's just, you know, hey, everyone's got
their own story. This is his. So this woman gives
birth to a daughter. The daughter. I don't know what
was going on with the mom, but the daughter eventually
was taken to the hospital by and put with a
(33:34):
foster mom. And the uh.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
So, I don't know she was Wait, so the mom.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
It says that his daughter was taken to the hospital
by a foster mom at some point. So now he's like, well,
is this my daughter? They do a test, they determine
that yes, it is his daughter. So now he says, oh,
I want legal custody of this daughter. And they said, okay,
it's your daughter, right of course. So now he's like,
all right, So I got to figure some stuff out.
(34:05):
The kid's now two years old. I don't know when
he took custody, but I imagine this has been going
on for several months to where it got to the
point now where he's complaining about it, saying this is insane.
Here's the part that he's complaining about. He says, my
daughter was taken to the hospital and basically turned into
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a ward of the state. The state gave my daughter
a legal name to put on a birth certificate. That
legal name from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human
Services was generated by a computer. So my daughter's legal
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name is Unikite as u name. That's the kid's first name, Unakite,
middle name thirteen, last name Hotel. This girl's name generated
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by a computer. And someone at the Department of Health
and Human Services in Nebraska said, fine, why bother a
computer generated the name Unikite thirteen hotel. That Jason, the
girl's dad, says, I would prefer that her name be Caroline,
(35:37):
but that's not her legal name. So in order to
change someone's legal name, you need a birth certificate and
you need a Social Security number. No one in the
state of Nebraska apparently has these things. So he's like, Okay,
So this girl apparently when no one knows where her
birth certificate is. It's questionable whether she was even given
(35:58):
a Social Security number, and he says, I can't change
her legal name without a birth certificate and a Social
Security number. I'm like, if you want her social Security number,
just ask elon anyway, but he says, not only can
I not do a name change, but I can't claim
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around my taxes. Oh that's what it's all about now.
He's just, Hey, you'd want the you'd want to be
able to claim as a dependent on your taxes a
child as well, especially if it's your child and you're
raising the child and you get that deduction. So I
can't claim around my taxes. I can't get her into
daycare without a Social Security number because they have to
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have that for legal reasons. And there's even questions about
whether she can really be on his health insurance. So
he says this situation is absolutely unacceptable, and the champion
he has in the Nebraska legislature is, among all people
and incredibly liberal and high entertaining, Nebraska State Senator Megan Hunt,
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who says it's crazy that in the state of Nebraska
this didn't happen in some hut, in some third world nation.
This is in the state of Nebraska. We have a
child with no legal identity after being in state custody
due to bureaucratic negligence. So she's got a bill that's
trying to change all of this. I would think that
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this would be an easy remedy. Surely someone can be like,
all right, this is crazy, let's fix it. Trump, Elon Musk,
Governor Pillen, Megan Hunt. No one that has the power
to just be like, all right, let's issue the documentation
and take and take care of this. But then again,
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it's just as easy as for this guy to say,
this is my daughter. I made this documentation. Now there's
got to be an investigation. Did you steal this kid?
And are you just saying it's your daughter. I have
a hard time believing that that would be the case here,
because who in the world would come up with they
named this child a Unikite thirteen hotel. By the way,
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because this story is now getting national attention.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Is it should.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
If there isn't a hotel in town changing its name
to Unikite thirteen Hotel, you're missing a tremendous opportunity. And
you could pay this girl. She could be your mascot.
I mean, let's think of the revenue here. So this
guy's trying to figure out how to rename his daughter
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because it was a computer generated the name Unikite thirteen
Hotel Okay.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Was that name generated recently? Like as she said, she's
like two years old.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Now, shortly after birth? I guess.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
So he didn't have her right after birth.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
No, I don't know what the timeframe was from when
she was born to when she ended up a ward
of the state to win this game.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
He's got her for two years if he's just finding out.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Well, like I said, it seems like this has been
going on for months and since he keeps getting stonewalled,
now he's reaching out to the news to say, we've
got to shine a light on the story. This is crazy.
Maybe something will happen if we go to the news.
So that's what's happening now. So I don't I don't
know if it was a couple of weeks, a couple
of months, half a year, I don't know how long
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it was before he finally got custody of this girl
thanks to the DNA test.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Well, this is your government gone absolutely haywire, insane, especially
some some departments in our government.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Let me push back a little bit.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Okay, well you can't push back on a kid being
named unakite whatever. And nobody decides. Nobody looks at that
and says, wait a minute, what happened here?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
But if some I mean, I guess it was someone's job.
If we're going to issue a birth certificate, don't you
have to have a name for the child?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Well, they didn't do that.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Would you feel like if let's say you work for
the Department of Health and Human Services and someone comes
into your office and says, congratulations, Lucy, you're now a mom.
Now here's the part of the show where Lucy says
she's glad she doesn't have kids, and you're like what,
and they said, we're just kidding. But now it's it's
(40:36):
your department. It's your job right now, since this falls
under your department here with the Department of Health and
Human Services, you've got to try and figure out what
to do with this kid. The first thing we have
to do is is issue documentation. We need a birth certificate.
You've got to name this kid. Would you feel it
was your job to give this kid a name. It's
(40:59):
not your child. Someone's going to have this child, but
we need to have something to put on the birth certificate.
I don't know that a computer generated name is the
worst idea that could have happened. There.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Oh, that's much better than Sally or.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Or why are you making people named Sally Jordan? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Oh it was there was a Sally Jordan, wasn't there?
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Probably it's a big world.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
The point is that you can't see. You don't want
to give a kid a name because this isn't your kid.
You don't know the kid whatever. I get that, So
it's better to let a computer. See. This is where
we're all starting to think that the computer is better.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Let's ask ROC.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
I can't. I don't hate the idea. If if someone
comes to me and says, put a name on the certificate,
I'm like, I can't name this child. This is basically
a temporary place And in fact, what I would probably
do is name the kid temporary placeholder.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
That would be more acceptable. Of course, if the kid
kept that name, that would really damage just.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Well, that's the other thing. How do you know that
this girl doesn't grow up and be like, I like
the name unikite, I'm gonna take it back. I'm Unikite
thirteen Hotel. Right now, Frank Zappa is looking at this going,
I think that name is fairly pedestrian.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Actually that's a that's a fair point. He's looking for
a grandkid to name.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
This kid moon Unit and Dweezle, and I don't know,
pancake batter, I don't know. So it's not that the
more I say it, the more I like this name.
I'm gonna ask my wife can we have another kid,
the little little Unikite, Because whether it's a boy or
(42:53):
a girl, whether it's a boy or girl, you can
name the kid Unikite. It's a it's a it seems
like a gender listening, I think Unakite thirteen Hotel. I
I love this name. And now the guy wants a
name or I don't know if it's Caroline or Carolyn.
(43:14):
That name sounds boring to me. Now, no offense. If
that's your name, it's a beautiful name. But when you've
already been known now in the media as Unakite, I
think you gotta stay little Uni. What would that be
the nickname? Would you go Uni or Una Una? Because
it's U n A k I T E Kite Kitie
(43:36):
Katie uk Uk. It's a little brit baby. Maybe she's like,
I want to go by my middle name thirteen.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Wasn't that a character from a Stranger Things?
Speaker 1 (43:49):
That's eleven? I was thinking the same thing. The last
name Hotel is a little strange.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Yeah, you wouldn't want to go by that.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
You wouldn't never want to have heartbreak. That would be
too easy for your friends to be like, oh, it
looks like we got a case of you know, so
you then you'd people start singing to you. You wouldn't
want to play monopoly with this person. I wanted you
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just put a picture of you down on park Place.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
That's dumb. Know.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
I clearly didn't write any of this in advance. Scott
By Lucy, you are a woman, So I hope that
you're not outraged at this headline I'm about to read you.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
I got to set it up a little bit though,
right because it has to do with the accusations of
Dei hires not as Omaha's homeless services coordinator, as we
talked about in the last hour of the show, and
was a big topic of conversation when mayoral came manidate
Mike McDonald was on with Gary and Jim. He was
(45:03):
on at seven thirty five this morning. He said she
is a DEI hire. Mayor Stothard is very angry about that.
She'll be on at seven thirty five tomorrow morning. Set
a reminder on your phone and if you missed the
conversation with Mike McDonald, it's posted now on the podcast
link at under kfab's Morning News at kfab dot com.
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But this DEI accusation is about pilots. State Senator Lauren Lippencott,
who is a member of the unicameral here Nebraska out
of the thriving metropolis of Central City. He and he's
a former pilot. He says that underqualified individuals are getting
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hired in the airline and aviation industries, including his pilots.
And he described one person who was hired who lacked
experience but possessed a high amount of melanie in his skin. Now,
his point is is there are people who will look
(46:09):
at two candidates and see one who is very qualified
but white, and sees someone who is underqualified but checks
a certain box, whether that's race, gender, orientation, some protected status.
And the idea is who cares about qualifications? We have
to make sure that everyone we hire. If we all
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pose for a group picture, we look like someone like
a group of people in a McDonald's commercial, they're like,
all right. Basically, I think the casting directors for these
commercials are basically like Noah trying to populate his arc.
Bring me two of everything, put them in this commercial.
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So there are certainly some people who are pushing that,
and I don't know that all their motivations are way
off base. Certainly there are some who feel like because
of the unrich history of this nation, there are people
who've not gotten a fair shot, and so we're going
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to give them a fairer shot. That is the e
in dei. Equity has nothing to do with where you are,
what qualifications you have. We're just going to lift you
up to the spot anyway. Now, that is I think
a laudable position to have in nineteen sixty five. It's
(47:35):
twenty twenty five, and you go from city to city,
state to state, classroom to classroom, and you'll find people
who have been given essentially the same opportunity. Yeah, but
their parents might have more money in this neighbor yeah,
I know, And they're all in the same classroom. They're
all provided the same opportunity, and you've got some kids
(47:57):
who are taking advantage of that opportunity and they're doing great,
and they're of all different ethnicities and backgrounds and genders
and persuasions. And then you've got some other people also
of different genders and equities and backgrounds and races and
positions and religious orientations or whatever, and they're not doing
as well. Seems to me that we've established equality here
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and we shouldn't be looking at equity. Equity and equality
are not the same thing. Now, let's presume everyone understands that,
and let's move on. So Lippincott, the State Center out
of Central City says that there was one hire who
lacked experience but possessed a high amount of melanin in
his skin. In other words, he was not white, probably
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a black guy. Well, to put this out there and
say he was only hired as a black guy, you're
inviting people to call you racist, and there will be
a lot of people who don't give you the benefit
of the doubt. I don't know, Senator Lauren Lippencott. I
would prefer that if this is his argument, that you
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argue it based on the merits of the case, which is,
I don't want to focus on the color of someone's
skin here. Let's talk about this what you describe as
a lack of qualifications, and you can put that against like,
here are the two people who are open for this job.
(49:29):
Here's one person's qualifications and I'm not going to tell
you what the person's name is, gender, race in it,
just qualifications. Here's the other person, scampit of qualifications, Like,
you got one person who is a fighter pilot in
the United States Air Force and has all these hours
of training, all these hours in there, and the other
(49:49):
person's like, I like to ride on the fly fly
And so these are the two people, and we hired
fly fly base it on that that's a fair argument.
By saying that guy was only hired because he's black
might be true, But you can't just say that without
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also throwing out there the qualifications, because it sounds like
you're an angry old white guy mad that a black
guy got hired. And again, I don't know this guy.
I presume he doesn't think that, but you're now inviting
that criticism. So this is the argument underway right now
in the unicameral. This is one of the latest arguments now.
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The accusation that their dei hires leading to a crisis
in the aviation industry came up a few weeks ago
with now what is apparently daily issues with our our
skies or trying to get in the skies or trying
to get down from the skies, which brings me to
(50:53):
this headline. The Babylon b is a satirical news website
and they have a dark headline that is marinating in satire,
and it's probably going to cause some people to be
outraged that I'm even reading.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
This, even though it's fake.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
It's totally fake. Here's the headline. Delta adds a little
hanging tennis ball to end of runway for female pilots.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
That is awesome. That is funny. I don't care. That's funny.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
You understand not everyone's gonna find that funny.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
I do. I'd say lighting up.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
Speaking of Delta, Delta was the airline that landed on
the runway there in Toronto and then came crashing to
a stop, flipping over, losing its wings. I mean, it
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was just horrible. Went belly up as a crash landed
on the airstrip there in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (52:14):
That happened to hawk Hawk. Yeah he lost a wing. Hawk,
the hawk Man or whatever, the marble.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
Guy, please share more of this.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
The marble guy wasn't his name?
Speaker 1 (52:33):
Hawk Falcon, that guy who's now Captain America what occasionally
loses a wing. It doesn't seem to slow him down much.
He's Falcon anyway. Usually people aren't on Falcon at the
time he might lose a wing. In this case, there
were eighty people on board, and it's amazing because I
(52:58):
want to make sure I know what I'm talking talking
about here, m yeah, every I wanted to say, and
no one died, And like, is that true? There's been
so many I want to make sure. Yeah, about eighty
people on board and no one died. So Delta said,
here's what we're doing. If you were on that flight,
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here's thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
To hang upside down for a while. I wished i'd
been on that flight.
Speaker 1 (53:29):
Now. See, I didn't know if you were going to
say that's not that's a paltry sum based on what
they went through, or if you were going to say,
all right, so they had a rough landing and hung
upside down for a little bit, I'd take thirty thousand
dollars for that at all.
Speaker 2 (53:47):
Yeah, do I have to give some taxes?
Speaker 1 (53:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
I would say, give me thirty thousand dollars and then
you pay the taxes, So give me thirty five thousand
and forty thousand whatever.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
Yeah. And if you're thinking like that's not a lot
of money, well, the people on the US Airways flight
that landed on the Hudson River, that's the solely Sullenberger deal.
The company sent them five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (54:13):
Well, yeah, but those thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
Yeah, they didn't end up upside down. They had to
go out on the cold Hudson and they lost their luggage.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
That five thousand was supposed to cover your luggage.
Speaker 1 (54:26):
Job and say for luggage lost in the waters, five
thousand dollars. So if you're thinking, well, yeah, this thirty
thousand dollars, don't take it because if you take it now,
you're basically given permission not to sue Delta. Right, No,
Delta says thirty thousand dollars a person, no strings attached.
You can I bet you can still sue us. Oh really, yep,
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no strings attached. It doesn't affect your rights to sue
or what you might get in anything else. We just
what's the game? We wanted to give you thirty thousand dollars,
which is an interesting sum of money because there was
there was a meeting, right, how much should we give them?
Twenty five thousand dollars That doesn't seem like enough, one
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hundred thousand that seems like too much. So now you're
starting negotiating and you just come up with thirty thousand
dollars and people just stare, all right, no argument, fine,
thirty grand, thirty thousand dollars a lot of money. Someone
gives you thirty thousand dollars, You're like, oh, thanks.
Speaker 2 (55:32):
I got to write home too, right.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
Yeah, I'm still gonna sue you for everything I can get.
And they're like that's fine.
Speaker 2 (55:39):
No, no, no, I'm saying after the crash, they they let them.
They got the people home wherever they were supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (55:47):
Oh you mean if they needed to be on another flight, right, I imagine, yeah,
I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (55:52):
Many people then I'll take the thirty.
Speaker 1 (55:54):
Right, I don't know how many people were like, yeah,
I'll take the next Delta flight out here. That's true,
Like you know what is Southwest flying out of here today?
Or anyone any literally anyone else? You know what, I'll walk?
Speaker 2 (56:05):
Might I meet your pilot?
Speaker 1 (56:06):
Right? Thirty thousand dollars doesn't soothe any of the trauma
of the situation. It's still thirty thousand dollars. I'm sure
they're happy to take it. I mean happy, but they're
taking it. Ken the email Scott atkfab dot com and
the Zonker's custom woods in box. I'm Scott Voorhe's here
(56:28):
with Lucy Chapman on news radio eleven to ten KFAB
and that says, now, how about this Trump just announced.
I don't know that he announced. He speculated that maybe
with the savings of DOGE, he would take half of
the or small percentage of the savings and pay down
the debt. And then he'd take another small percentage of
the savings, like twenty percent of the savings and divvy
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it up among Americans. And it turns out each household
in America would get like five thousand dollars due to
the cost savings from DOGE. Ken emails and says, I
wish they'd put it against the debt instead, But wouldn't
it be interesting would the protesters who hate Trump, who
hate Elon, who hate Doge, would they cast those checks
(57:12):
or would they protest by burning those checks? Ken I
think we know the answer to that question. Scott Voices,
mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven ten KFAB
Scott Vordiez. I finished Cobra Kai last night, and it
is absolutely the most asinine and ridiculous TV series of
all time. It's like they got together and said, what
if we we do a show based on this premise?
And they said that's crazy, and then they just made
(00:22):
it crazier and crazier and they're like, what if we
did this? Like is this too over the top? And
then they just kept doing it and doing it, and
I just kept cheering them on and cheering them on,
like dumber, bigger and dumber, and then it finally topped
out the biggest, dumbest thing I've ever seen, and I
loved it. So more of that, please. It's just absolutely
(00:48):
so much fun. And we finished that series last night.
Binged that baby in just a couple of nights, because
you know, I got a lot going on in my life,
so then I couldn't sleep. I just kept all night
thinking about that stupid show. I don't know why I
get so emotionally invested in these shows, and I don't
(01:10):
know that it's even so much the shows. I think
that if you binge watch anything, if you sit there
and watch several hours of program over two nights. I
think it does impact your brain, just tossing and turning
all night, going well, what about this? Or what could this?
(01:30):
And what about that? And I'm just waking up and
looking at the clock. It's just I think binge watching
TV shows is dangerous for the brain. So that's where
my brain is this morning. I'm not going to do
any more of that for the foreseeable future. We just
went all in on that series and now and I
(01:54):
don't have a new series. I'm not watching anything right now.
When does Stranger Thinks new season come out? Anyway, I
think that probably the best place to start here is
what took up most of the year during kfab's morning news.
I'm still getting emails about it here sent to Scott
atkfab dot com in the Zonkers custom Woods inbox, and
(02:16):
it has to do with I guess the topic is
the homeless issue in Omaha. But the new topic is
what a mayoral candidate said about the homeless services coordinator
in Omaha and what the current mayor is saying in
terms of defending said homeless services coordinator in Omaha. A
(02:38):
few years ago, Omaha Mayor Jene Stothard had hired to
be Omaha's homeless coordinator, a woman named Tamara Dwyer. She's
been a guest on this program. She's been in the
studio and we've talked about this issue, which I said,
I see this problem getting worse in Omaha, and I
(03:00):
would prefer that that be the focus of the conversation.
What Mike McDonell, the mayoral challenger here, said to Gary
Sadlemeyer and Jim Rose on kfab's Morning News this morning
was that he also sees this homeless issue in Omaha
getting worse. He blames the services Coordinator for Omaha and
(03:22):
Omaha Mayor Jean Stothard, and that's why he said, I
went to this event on Saturday and said that the
services coordinator is a DEI hire. And what he said
was that, yeah, she was hired with federal money three
(03:44):
months after Mayor Stothard signed a DEI agreement with the
National League of Cities. Now tomorrow morning, that's that's that
was a couple of hours ago on kfab's Morning News.
We'll get that Slicy diceed post on the podcast link
on the morning NewsPage at kfab dot com later this
(04:04):
morning and tomorrow morning at the same time, seven thirty five,
Omaha Mahror Jean Stothart is going to come on and
address this issue. I presume one of the things addressed
is the accusation that Meyristoth signed a DEI agreement with
the National League of Cities. I'm curious to hear Meyristoth
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respond to that, because it's my understanding that there were
cities that signed up with this National League of Cities,
and somewhere buried within this agreement is some sort of
language on DEI. I don't think it's just like all right,
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and now sign here. Here's your DEI agreement. Sign here.
They're just passing papers around. I don't think that's how
this worked. Of course, Mayri Stothert is seizing on that, saying,
so my McDonald says that this person was hired as
a DEI hire. Well, her diversity, I guess in this
(05:08):
case is the fact that she is of the female persuasion.
So is Mike McDonald not going to hire women if
he's elected mayor of Omaha? Does he think that any
woman who's been hired for any job as a DEI hire?
Does he think that women aren't qualified to do anything
but bring him a beer, you know. So that's kind
of the tone coming from Mayor Stothard on this. Mike
(05:30):
McDonald just said, no, she was hired with federal funding
after there was a DEI agreement signed, and then he
tried to pivot back on. But what I think is
is that I think she and the City of Omaha
are doing a bad job on the homeless front. And
I think that there were a lot of people in
kfab Nation listening to that because we drive around this city.
(05:55):
We see it, maybe not so much this week, but
we see the homeless issues on especially nice days and
nights and evenings. We see it in the streets, we
see it under the overpasses. Some people living in neighborhoods,
they see it. If you've got an area with any
trees anywhere around, there's probably a pretty good chance someone's
living in there. I live out in West Omaha near
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one hundred and sixty eighth in Maple Like, where does
someone live out there? Under the bridge on Maple Street
just east of one hundred and sixty eight. That's I
told the story about how my son and his friends
were exploring the creek underneath that bridge, and that's when
my son told me that that's what they were doing.
(06:39):
I said, well, you got to be really careful under there,
and he said, yeah, that's what the guy who lives
under there told us. There's also some tunnels that go
under there, and we have seen evidence of people living
in those tunnels. And this is in a fashionable West
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Olma neighborhood. Be that as it may, and it's like
that all over town. This issue has gotten out of control.
So Mike McDonald's calling attention to that, and then when
pressed on so what are you going to do about it?
His answer seems to be, well, we need to have
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like a homeless encampment that's like, you know where where
people are paying for it in the city of Omaha.
Says okay, you guys can all live here and we've
got services and like water and electric Like are you
talking about a koa campground for the homeless? First of all,
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where in Omaha is that going to be? Second of all,
how do you force people to live there? If the
issue is is we can't criminalize homelessness, how do you
force people like say, you can't live over here, you
have to live here with all the other homeless people.
And you talk to homeless people, and I've talked to
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homeless people, and I've talked with the people who deal
and talk with homeless people, and a lot of what
they say is For example, there was a story the
other night where police picked up a guy and said,
you're out here on the streets. We're going to take
you someplace warm where you can get some soup in
a blanket and you can stay in the warmth. And
he said, I don't want to go. Why not cause
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they're going to steal my stuff. He's talking about other
homeless people. Why do you think that there are people
spread out all across the area and they don't all
congregate in this area just north of the baseball stadium
downtown where there's a huge homeless encampment. A lot of
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it ends up being on private business land. That's a
major issue. But why do you think there are people
spread out from that Because some of the people who
are in that encampment basically act like gang war lords.
Oh you want to live in this area, and you
got to pay the piper, And if you're a woman
in there, you're going to be attacked if you come
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up there with anything, including something really fancy like shoes.
They're going to be taken from you. It's a horrible,
dangerous situation. And what should happen is someone with the
City of Omaha should just say, all right, let's talk.
You can't live out here, and if they protest, say
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all right, I'll tell you what. We're not going to
give you a tent. We're not going to give you
a sleeping bag. We're not going to give you food.
We're not going to give you something to drink, we're
not going to give you any medicine. Here's what you're
going to give you. Here's sixty bucks. It'll pay you
and we're and it's in the form of a bus ticket.
Get on this bus. Here are a list of cities
that apparently want homeless people living there. It's better climate,
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they have more opportunities for you to live on the streets.
Did I mention it's warmer? Where do you want to go?
All right? But one bus ticket to San Francisco. It's
gonna be a little bit more than sixty bucks. But
I'll tell you what. We'll pay it boon voyage, you know.
And that's probably the best thing that Omaha can do,
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because as soon as we send the signal you can't
live on the streets in Omaha, then people stop coming
here to live on the streets. We've seen this problem
get worse here in the last few years. We need
to stop pacifying this. And when Mike McDonald says this
is a horrible problem and I've seen it get worse,
and the people Omaha go yeah, and then he says,
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what I would he need is like a dedicated homeless
encampment where all these people can live in the city
of Omaha and the taxpayers will pay for And then
people omar are like, what wait, wait, what No, I
know that's going to create more homelessness. As soon as
the message goes out like, hey, you can come to Omaha.
We got a nice you got campgund camp. You know,
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you got camping hookups and all that stuff, and people
will basically take care of you. And we might have
some tiny houses and all the rest of this, you're
gonna have more of this problem. So Mike McDonald was
a guest with Gary and Jim this morning at seven
thirty five. Mayor Stoth's going to be a guest with
Gary and Jim tomorrow morning at seven thirty five. Don't
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miss this that's coming up tomorrow morning. What is one
of the big reasons why there are so many people
who don't have the mental wherewithal not to live on
the streets. I think it's this issue, and there is
a local advocate who agrees it's a bad issue, but
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on a different front. Mark Welsh has come back up
for air. If you're familiar with that name, we'll talk
about it next. Scott Voices News Radio eleven ten. Lucy
Chapman is here. Good morning, Lucy Chapman, Good morning. What's
going on with your bad self?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Oh? You know, I would tell you, but then you know,
you know what.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
They say, you'd have to kill me.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
No, I just couldn't be friends with you anymore.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
No one says that. No one's ever said that.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
They've said it in your head.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Let me tell you how normal people talk to each other. Hey, Lucy,
hey doing I'm great, you fantastic. Thanks. That's how normal
people converse.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I don't know what you heard, but that is exactly
what I said.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You said back. If if you told me how you
were doing, we couldn't be friends anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Some people are saying I've listened to you guys, I
don't think you're friends now fair, Yeah, Lucy and I
don't play well with others. That's why they put us
in two different studios and say all right, talk on
the radio. And I said at the start of the program,
my brain feels mired. It's the word I think I'll
(13:06):
use here. Could not sleep. And when I woke up
this morning, it was one of those things where I
kept looking at the clock, falling back asleep, waking up,
looking at the clock, three minutes have gone by, fall
back asleep, look at the clock, three minutes a gone by.
And then when I finally I got to get up,
I didn't feel like I was fully awake. I'm not
(13:26):
sure I'm awake. Now. Let me tell you something dumb
that my weird brain did this morning. I put on
these pants and then I thought, now I got to
put on a belt, and then I thought, I don't
want to put on a belt, and so I'm not
wearing a belt. What do you think of that?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That is a weird glimpse one side of the life
of Scott Vorhe's pulling the curtain back a little bit. There, strange,
I've got there.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
These are big comfortable pants, and I'm wearing it with
my big comfortable shirt. This is the same outfit that
Darcy Dingman saw me wearing, uh, I don't know, last
year sometime and said those pants in that shirt don't
fit you.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
And I said, insulter, was it a compliment?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I think it was just a factual observance. And I
said such things, and I said, I know, uh, these
are these are big. They're not jeans, and they're not slacks.
They're just black like almost like khaki pants, except they're
black and they're big. And I'm wearing them today because
I got my boots on. Now I can't wear a
(14:37):
fashionable little pair of whether they're you know, khaki pants
and you know, some nice fitting navy slacks or something
with with these boots, because they're gonna scrunch up at
the top of the boots and all look ridiculous. So
now I just wear wearing these giant mc hammer pants.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
We call those glax.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Am I galaxing, You're galaxing cool. So that's what's going
on with me today. And I'm very cozy, and I'm
not sure I'm awake right now. I think I'm probably
putting people to sleep. That's dangerous, especially especially if you're driving.
I'm sorry Mark Welsh will remember this name. Mark Mark
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is the president of the Group to Alleviate Smoking Pollution
aka GASP is the name of this organization. He was
the one who years ago said we shouldn't have any
smoking in any Omaha businesses. He led that charge to
ban smoking from your bars and your restaurants and your businesses.
That was probably going back sixteen or so years. Bro
(15:45):
longer than ten.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Is it longer than Yeah, it's been.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It was shortly after I got here and I've been
here eighteen years, so he did that. Well. Now Mark
Welsh is back from outer space. He just showed up
with that ooh, who's smoking? Look upon his face scrunched yes.
And the front that he is fighting on right now
(16:07):
is medical marijuana. Now that medical marijuana is legal in Nebraska,
he says it's legal to smoke medical marijuana in in
home daycare as long as kids aren't present. You can
smoke in your in home daycare otherwise known as your
house when kids aren't there. You can smoke your medical
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marijuana in hotel rooms designated to smoking rooms, in other words,
a place where smoking is legal. You can smoke in
foster homes otherwise known as in your own home.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh, I thought you meant the foster kids.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
No, you can smoke while driving a car. You can
smoke while driving a car, otherwise known as in your car.
You can smoke in parks and any other outdoor property
otherwise known as.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Outside that's not allowed.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You can smoke while walking on a public sidewalk, otherwise
known as outside.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I can see where he's got to be losing his mind.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
All right, so he's really mad about all of this.
Now he's wrong on one front, but he's right on
another one.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
He's right on a couple of them actually.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
On all this. Well, let's let's get back on this
after a Fox News update. Next, Lucy and I were
just chatting about the president of the Group to Alleviate
Smoking Pollution, gasp Mark Welsh, who led the charge years
ago to get smoking out of Omaha's bars and restaurants.
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Well now he's back, and he says, since medical marijuana
is a legal drug in Nebraska, he wants businesses to
be able to prevent their employees or customers from smoking
it indoors, and he's specifically looking at places where he says,
looks to me like medical marijuana may be smoked in
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places like in home daycares otherwise known as your home,
as long as no kids are in the business, in
hotel rooms designated to smoking rooms. In other words, places
where smoking is allowed in uh foster homes otherwise known
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as your house. Driving a car, any vehicle, I don't
think that's accurate. You can't, you're not. You probably shouldn't
be allowed to smoke marijuana while driving, right, even though
everyone would think apparently does it. I smell it as
I'm coming to work in the morning. I smell it
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coming from other vehicles. And then he says you can.
You can smoke at parks, in any outdoor property or
on a public sidewalk, yep, it's outside. And in multi
family dwellings forcing neighbors to breathe secondhand marijuana smoke, Well,
that one's a sticky issue, because if you're multifamily dwelling
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allows you to smoke in there, that's whatever one I
guess signed up for. I don't want to smell other
people's anything coming from a multifamily dwelling, whether that's something
like a duplex or an apartment complex, or a condo
or something like that. When you start smelling your neighbors,
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no matter what they're doing, it's usually not a good smell.
It's not like, oh cinnamon, you know, it's it's usually
something awful.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You're really gonna hate the fifteen minute cities.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I know, where everyone just right on top of each other,
we all live. That's what they're pushing us into doing.
They all want us to live. And basically, you ever see, Lucy,
I know you love golf as much as I do,
just play along. In places like Korea and Japan, we've
got these like multi level high rise places. Because it's
(20:04):
in a concrete jungle, there's no golf courses there, there's
no room to play golf, and people don't really have
the transportation the wherewithal to be able to drive to
the countryside to go find a really expensive golf course.
So instead we've got like the Woodman Tower erected here,
and it's all a driving range, and so you're on
different levels of the driving range and you're all hitting
(20:25):
golf balls out to this thing like a top golf
kind of a thing, except it's not. Rather than being
one or two stories high, it's like twenty stories high,
and it's just crazy. And that's how they want us
all to live in just big high rises where that's
our only option. But I want to go out and
have a little more space. Nope, you're in Bay number
(20:47):
level eighteen, Bay six, that's where you live.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
But I get a green or something. Yeah, you get
a hutting green.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
You get a small bucket of balls.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
A small bucket of balls, but not a putting green.
All right, fine? And also real quick, I want to
know where you're driving in the morning, where the people
you're driving by are having some kind of phone already
in the morning.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Down Maple pretty much the entire straight stretch of Maple Street.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
That is a party place.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Two three times a week I drive by people who
are smoking marijuana and I can smell it, you know,
in my vehicle coming from their vehicle. Why not, it's
not you. I hear you on the radio. You're already
He's a joke.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Wasn't me two thousand songs?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
So yes, thank you for that two thousand song reference?
Wasn't me the ding um?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So we both say, what is right about.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
He said that in these areas where kids might be
present in home daycare is your foster home. That's something
like that. He says children need and deserve to breathe
clean air. Forcing children to breathe smoky air makes them sick. Well,
if that were the case, we'd all be sick. Everyone
who grew up in the seventies and eighties would all
(22:03):
be just struggling to breathe, dying of emphasema from the
second hand smoke that all of us grew up with.
So that's one and many of us are not actively
dying of some sort of amphasema. So we got that
going for us, which is nice. Ding. Sorry, I'm not
(22:27):
I'm too lazy today to reach over and hit the ding.
I didn't even put a belt on this morning.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Do you put a belt on with glax?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah? I always wear a belt. It just feels wrong
not to. I'm not wearing one. I was like, I
don't want to, man, So that was caddyshack, by the way,
um trying to regain the train of thought. Oh kids, Yeah,
well there's kids, and that there's also the idea here
(22:55):
that the medical marijuana laws that are now in effect
to Nebraska, that everyone is just walking around smoking marijuana.
This is not accurate. Medical marijuana is in nearly every
single instance, it's something it's like a cream, a balm,
(23:16):
an ointment, a liniment, a lotion, a potion. It's it's
something like that, or it's like it's some sort of
ingestible thing that you have, like like a pill. It's
not something like, uh, oh, you got gout here. Here's
this giant spleef you know here to take this home
and just start dubling it up, you know. It's it's
(23:37):
like doctors generally don't give you a prescription of something
that you smoke, so it's something it's it's ingestibles and
lotions and things like that here everywhere. But Mark Welsh
also points out that this whole thing, and this is
(23:58):
a big thing we talked about with medical Marijuanas this
conversation went on and on and on. In the state
of Nebraska, this system gets abused, and in this press
release from the group to Alleviate Smoking Pollution says soon
after Colorado legalized medical marijuana in the year two thousand,
my cousin who lives in Salida, Colorado, told me there
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were doctors getting very rich by writing prescriptions for marijuana.
They would charge people one hundred bucks to see them
for five minutes, then write them a prescription so they
could buy or grow their own so called medical marijuana.
It was common knowledge that all you had to tell
the doctor is that you had pain or cramps, and
they'd give you a prescription for it. There were doctors
(24:41):
who saw people for only that reason, and that's consistent
with what I've heard from other people who worked in
this game in other states. Arizona is a big one,
Colorado is another one. It's a joke in many instances.
A great example was I think I think it was
I think it was Pennsylvania that a few years back
(25:03):
said all right, we're going to allow some medical marijuana,
but you have to apply for a special certification to
be able to write prescriptions for medical marijuana. We don't
want this to be right with abuse. And so one
of these doctors who got it was an obgyn. And
(25:24):
as soon as it was released, like here's the list
of doctors who prescribed this, suddenly her waiting room was
full of men like, sir, this is an obgyn. Yeah,
this is not. This is not your doctor's office. But
I have a general malaise like it's it is abused.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
But then they couldn't use that criteria today just because
a bunch of men showed up in the obgyn doctor's office.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I know, you know one of the the favorite phrases
of obguyns is today, what is it in twenty twenty five? Like, sir,
I'd love to give you a PAP smear, but your
testicles are in the way.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I see. Yeah, I am just shocked.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
It's science.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I am just shocked that a doctor anywhere, even one,
much less probably dozens, hundreds of doctors would lie. I'm shocked.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Let's not throw all doctors. I'm not under the lucybus.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I'm not. I'm saying hundreds out of what millions of doctors, Yes,
very small percentage. I'm just shocked that they would lie
about stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
No, you're not. You're being sarcastic. I'm fluent in sarcasm,
are you. Yes? So my thing here is all right,
we're getting out bent out of shape about the possibility
of secondhand smoke, that people will be allowed to smoke
in their home. Let's just address that because that's his
big concern. So once again, what he's not, what he's
doing is he's not concerned about kids secondhand smoke. He
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doesn't want you smoking anything that you be allowed to
smoke in your own home. Mark once again. And we've
told you this a lot. Mind your business, Mind yo business.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Why are you worried about somebody else's kids When the
parents have the ability to say, I don't want to
take my kids to your daycare because you smoke marijuana
in your house. That is perfectly fine for a parent
to say that. So now doesn't it now fall upon
the parent. It's not the person in the house. If
the person in the house is I've got a medical
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condition and I have to smoke this marijuana and it's
in my house, but I won't do it while kids
are around. Oh, but then we have the third hand
marijuana residue or something. Yeah, which is fine. That's fine
if that's what you want to say yes or no to.
Then it is upon the parents to say I don't care,
I don't believe in third whatever. Then it slips to them.
(27:56):
So what, I don't like smoke booking marijuana. I don't
like the smell at all. But it is up to
a business. It is up to a person what they're
going to do. And I choose not to go there
or I choose not to hang out with him. Ah,
look at me with my own ability to choose.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
How about that? Mark tells the story here in this
press release that he reached out to the Douglas County
Health Department, and I imagine that's probably a daily or
even by hourly occurrence. Doctor Hughes. Mark Welsh is on
the line, Oh yeah, must be a day that ends
in why He says, I'd said I was in a
(28:34):
very smoky in home daycare. He said, I was helping
a friend remodel this woman's bathroom. Mark Welsh is now
also in addition to being a busy body, anti smoke
Nazi and a beekeeper, we learned about him in the
last few years, he's also a beekeeper. Apparently he's also
a remodeler.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
He's an all around kind of game Mark.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
And two anything. So what's still one of my favorite
moments in the history of this radio shows. Mark was
in the studio and he says like, look, I don't
like these policies where big government tells people what to do.
After all, I'm a Republican and I couldn't speak. I
just stared at him and he had a look on
(29:15):
his face. Like, yeah, what do you think of that?
Because he just loves pushing. He is a habitual linestepper.
To quote the great Charlie Murphy.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Well, how about this. I am terrified of bees. Scared
to death of bees. I don't think that they should
be allowed to be raised in backyards. I think that
they should only be raised in places where there is
a barrier between me and the bees.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
No, don't worry about bees. Don't worry about bees.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I'm not. I'm just I'm illustrating the point.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah, what you don't want is someone raising yellowjackets.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Those a problem.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
That's the army of horrible little jerks that just like
and we're gonna bite you, and we're gonna sting you.
We're gonna bite you, and we're gonna sting you. We're
all gonna gang up on you just because we don't
like to look on your face. They're horrible. Yellow jackets
are the ones that you hate, not bees. Don't worry
about bees.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I don't really hate bees, all right, See sounds like
you do. I don't, so are you anyway?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
No, I don't want to fight about it.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Move on.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
So, yeah, I'm trying. I am trying. He says, I'm
helping a friend remodel this woman's bathroom in her in
home daycare. And she said, and he said, I saw
this woman smoking in her downstairs bedroom and bathroom.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yes, an, why was he looking at her in the bathroom?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Right? Help on your model the bathroom. We're like, ma'am,
if you could just slide over a little bit here,
we're trying to install this shower curtain rod. And she's
like this bathroom and she's like, I'll be done in
a second, you know, like anyway smoking and all right,
So the health department told me, simply smelling smoke is
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not a violation of the law. He said, I just
smelled smoke in this woman's house.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
But he didn't see the smoke. He didn't see her smoking.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
He says, I saw the owner smoking in the downstairs
bedroom and bathroom. Right, the health department told me, simply
smelling smoke or seeing ashtrays full of cigarette butts, it's
not a violation of the law. They would have to
see someone smoking inside while a client slash child was
there at the daycare for them to be able to
say the law was being broken. So Mark doesn't want
(31:34):
you to smoke in your own home. Okay, that's uh yeah, okay,
thanks for letting us know. Martin just he's he got
back in the news there, and I couldn't resist the
temperature streat.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I'm glad to see him back in the news.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Yeah. So there we talked. We talked this hour about
Mike and Jean, a little ditty about Mike and Jean.
They're running from mayor. We talked about Mark and coming
up after this next opportunity for un to win one
thousand dollars. At ten oh five, we're going to talk
about unikite. Oh, you don't know unicyite?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Kite?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Unikite?
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Is it anything to do with unicorns?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
All right, just one.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Kite, unikite. You want to talk about unikite?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Every TV station in town has this story, and I
would prefer in the future, when a guy named Jason
has an issue with his two year old daughter, just
call me. We'll put you on the radio, we'll talk
to you. I don't need you to go to all
the TV stations and do this. No one called me.
I was probably probably too busy on the radio plane
DJ last night when all the TV stations were talking
(32:43):
to Jason. Jason has a two year old daughter. She
came into this world by way of birth at home,
and he and the daughter's mom were split up at
the time and for several months. And there was also
the chance that this girl that was born was not
(33:04):
his daughter. I didn't say this was a romantic Valentine's
Day story or anything.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Ye know, we're past that.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yeah, We're just it's just, you know, hey, everyone's got
their own story. This is his. So this woman gives
birth to a daughter. The daughter. I don't know what
was going on with the mom, but the daughter eventually
was taken to the hospital by and put with a
(33:34):
foster mom. And the uh.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
So, I don't know she was Wait, so the mom.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
It says that his daughter was taken to the hospital
by a foster mom at some point. So now he's like, well,
is this my daughter? They do a test, they determine
that yes, it is his daughter. So now he says, oh,
I want legal custody of this daughter. And they said, okay,
it's your daughter, right of course. So now he's like,
all right, So I got to figure some stuff out.
(34:05):
The kid's now two years old. I don't know when
he took custody, but I imagine this has been going
on for several months to where it got to the
point now where he's complaining about it, saying this is insane.
Here's the part that he's complaining about. He says, my
daughter was taken to the hospital and basically turned into
(34:28):
a ward of the state. The state gave my daughter
a legal name to put on a birth certificate. That
legal name from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human
Services was generated by a computer. So my daughter's legal
(34:53):
name is Unikite as u name. That's the kid's first name, Unakite,
middle name thirteen, last name Hotel. This girl's name generated
(35:14):
by a computer. And someone at the Department of Health
and Human Services in Nebraska said, fine, why bother a
computer generated the name Unikite thirteen hotel. That Jason, the
girl's dad, says, I would prefer that her name be Caroline,
(35:37):
but that's not her legal name. So in order to
change someone's legal name, you need a birth certificate and
you need a Social Security number. No one in the
state of Nebraska apparently has these things. So he's like, Okay,
So this girl apparently when no one knows where her
birth certificate is. It's questionable whether she was even given
(35:58):
a Social Security number, and he says, I can't change
her legal name without a birth certificate and a Social
Security number. I'm like, if you want her social Security number,
just ask elon anyway, but he says, not only can
I not do a name change, but I can't claim
(36:19):
around my taxes. Oh that's what it's all about now.
He's just, Hey, you'd want the you'd want to be
able to claim as a dependent on your taxes a
child as well, especially if it's your child and you're
raising the child and you get that deduction. So I
can't claim around my taxes. I can't get her into
daycare without a Social Security number because they have to
(36:42):
have that for legal reasons. And there's even questions about
whether she can really be on his health insurance. So
he says this situation is absolutely unacceptable, and the champion
he has in the Nebraska legislature is, among all people
and incredibly liberal and high entertaining, Nebraska State Senator Megan Hunt,
(37:03):
who says it's crazy that in the state of Nebraska
this didn't happen in some hut, in some third world nation.
This is in the state of Nebraska. We have a
child with no legal identity after being in state custody
due to bureaucratic negligence. So she's got a bill that's
trying to change all of this. I would think that
(37:24):
this would be an easy remedy. Surely someone can be like,
all right, this is crazy, let's fix it. Trump, Elon Musk,
Governor Pillen, Megan Hunt. No one that has the power
to just be like, all right, let's issue the documentation
and take and take care of this. But then again,
(37:46):
it's just as easy as for this guy to say,
this is my daughter. I made this documentation. Now there's
got to be an investigation. Did you steal this kid?
And are you just saying it's your daughter. I have
a hard time believing that that would be the case here,
because who in the world would come up with they
named this child a Unikite thirteen hotel. By the way,
(38:12):
because this story is now getting national attention.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Is it should.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
If there isn't a hotel in town changing its name
to Unikite thirteen Hotel, you're missing a tremendous opportunity. And
you could pay this girl. She could be your mascot.
I mean, let's think of the revenue here. So this
guy's trying to figure out how to rename his daughter
(38:37):
because it was a computer generated the name Unikite thirteen
Hotel Okay.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Was that name generated recently? Like as she said, she's
like two years old.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Now, shortly after birth? I guess.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
So he didn't have her right after birth.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
No, I don't know what the timeframe was from when
she was born to when she ended up a ward
of the state to win this game.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
He's got her for two years if he's just finding out.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Well, like I said, it seems like this has been
going on for months and since he keeps getting stonewalled,
now he's reaching out to the news to say, we've
got to shine a light on the story. This is crazy.
Maybe something will happen if we go to the news.
So that's what's happening now. So I don't I don't
know if it was a couple of weeks, a couple
of months, half a year, I don't know how long
(39:28):
it was before he finally got custody of this girl
thanks to the DNA test.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Well, this is your government gone absolutely haywire, insane, especially
some some departments in our government.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Let me push back a little bit.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Okay, well you can't push back on a kid being
named unakite whatever. And nobody decides. Nobody looks at that
and says, wait a minute, what happened here?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
But if some I mean, I guess it was someone's job.
If we're going to issue a birth certificate, don't you
have to have a name for the child?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Well, they didn't do that.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Would you feel like if let's say you work for
the Department of Health and Human Services and someone comes
into your office and says, congratulations, Lucy, you're now a mom.
Now here's the part of the show where Lucy says
she's glad she doesn't have kids, and you're like what,
and they said, we're just kidding. But now it's it's
(40:36):
your department. It's your job right now, since this falls
under your department here with the Department of Health and
Human Services, you've got to try and figure out what
to do with this kid. The first thing we have
to do is is issue documentation. We need a birth certificate.
You've got to name this kid. Would you feel it
was your job to give this kid a name. It's
(40:59):
not your child. Someone's going to have this child, but
we need to have something to put on the birth certificate.
I don't know that a computer generated name is the
worst idea that could have happened. There.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Oh, that's much better than Sally or.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Or why are you making people named Sally Jordan? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Oh it was there was a Sally Jordan, wasn't there?
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Probably it's a big world.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
The point is that you can't see. You don't want
to give a kid a name because this isn't your kid.
You don't know the kid whatever. I get that, So
it's better to let a computer. See. This is where
we're all starting to think that the computer is better.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Let's ask ROC.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
I can't. I don't hate the idea. If if someone
comes to me and says, put a name on the certificate,
I'm like, I can't name this child. This is basically
a temporary place And in fact, what I would probably
do is name the kid temporary placeholder.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
That would be more acceptable. Of course, if the kid
kept that name, that would really damage just.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Well, that's the other thing. How do you know that
this girl doesn't grow up and be like, I like
the name unikite, I'm gonna take it back. I'm Unikite
thirteen Hotel. Right now, Frank Zappa is looking at this going,
I think that name is fairly pedestrian.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Actually that's a that's a fair point. He's looking for
a grandkid to name.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
This kid moon Unit and Dweezle, and I don't know,
pancake batter, I don't know. So it's not that the
more I say it, the more I like this name.
I'm gonna ask my wife can we have another kid,
the little little Unikite, Because whether it's a boy or
(42:53):
a girl, whether it's a boy or girl, you can
name the kid Unikite. It's a it's a it seems
like a gender listening, I think Unakite thirteen Hotel. I
I love this name. And now the guy wants a
name or I don't know if it's Caroline or Carolyn.
(43:14):
That name sounds boring to me. Now, no offense. If
that's your name, it's a beautiful name. But when you've
already been known now in the media as Unakite, I
think you gotta stay little Uni. What would that be
the nickname? Would you go Uni or Una Una? Because
it's U n A k I T E Kite Kitie
(43:36):
Katie uk Uk. It's a little brit baby. Maybe she's like,
I want to go by my middle name thirteen.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Wasn't that a character from a Stranger Things?
Speaker 1 (43:49):
That's eleven? I was thinking the same thing. The last
name Hotel is a little strange.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Yeah, you wouldn't want to go by that.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
You wouldn't never want to have heartbreak. That would be
too easy for your friends to be like, oh, it
looks like we got a case of you know, so
you then you'd people start singing to you. You wouldn't
want to play monopoly with this person. I wanted you
(44:20):
just put a picture of you down on park Place.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
That's dumb. Know.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
I clearly didn't write any of this in advance. Scott
By Lucy, you are a woman, So I hope that
you're not outraged at this headline I'm about to read you.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
I got to set it up a little bit though,
right because it has to do with the accusations of
Dei hires not as Omaha's homeless services coordinator, as we
talked about in the last hour of the show, and
was a big topic of conversation when mayoral came manidate
Mike McDonald was on with Gary and Jim. He was
(45:03):
on at seven thirty five this morning. He said she
is a DEI hire. Mayor Stothard is very angry about that.
She'll be on at seven thirty five tomorrow morning. Set
a reminder on your phone and if you missed the
conversation with Mike McDonald, it's posted now on the podcast
link at under kfab's Morning News at kfab dot com.
(45:25):
But this DEI accusation is about pilots. State Senator Lauren Lippencott,
who is a member of the unicameral here Nebraska out
of the thriving metropolis of Central City. He and he's
a former pilot. He says that underqualified individuals are getting
(45:47):
hired in the airline and aviation industries, including his pilots.
And he described one person who was hired who lacked
experience but possessed a high amount of melanie in his skin. Now,
his point is is there are people who will look
(46:09):
at two candidates and see one who is very qualified
but white, and sees someone who is underqualified but checks
a certain box, whether that's race, gender, orientation, some protected status.
And the idea is who cares about qualifications? We have
to make sure that everyone we hire. If we all
(46:31):
pose for a group picture, we look like someone like
a group of people in a McDonald's commercial, they're like,
all right. Basically, I think the casting directors for these
commercials are basically like Noah trying to populate his arc.
Bring me two of everything, put them in this commercial.
(46:53):
So there are certainly some people who are pushing that,
and I don't know that all their motivations are way
off base. Certainly there are some who feel like because
of the unrich history of this nation, there are people
who've not gotten a fair shot, and so we're going
(47:14):
to give them a fairer shot. That is the e
in dei. Equity has nothing to do with where you are,
what qualifications you have. We're just going to lift you
up to the spot anyway. Now, that is I think
a laudable position to have in nineteen sixty five. It's
(47:35):
twenty twenty five, and you go from city to city,
state to state, classroom to classroom, and you'll find people
who have been given essentially the same opportunity. Yeah, but
their parents might have more money in this neighbor yeah,
I know, And they're all in the same classroom. They're
all provided the same opportunity, and you've got some kids
(47:57):
who are taking advantage of that opportunity and they're doing great,
and they're of all different ethnicities and backgrounds and genders
and persuasions. And then you've got some other people also
of different genders and equities and backgrounds and races and
positions and religious orientations or whatever, and they're not doing
as well. Seems to me that we've established equality here
(48:22):
and we shouldn't be looking at equity. Equity and equality
are not the same thing. Now, let's presume everyone understands that,
and let's move on. So Lippincott, the State Center out
of Central City says that there was one hire who
lacked experience but possessed a high amount of melanin in
his skin. In other words, he was not white, probably
(48:45):
a black guy. Well, to put this out there and
say he was only hired as a black guy, you're
inviting people to call you racist, and there will be
a lot of people who don't give you the benefit
of the doubt. I don't know, Senator Lauren Lippencott. I
would prefer that if this is his argument, that you
(49:08):
argue it based on the merits of the case, which is,
I don't want to focus on the color of someone's
skin here. Let's talk about this what you describe as
a lack of qualifications, and you can put that against like,
here are the two people who are open for this job.
(49:29):
Here's one person's qualifications and I'm not going to tell
you what the person's name is, gender, race in it,
just qualifications. Here's the other person, scampit of qualifications, Like,
you got one person who is a fighter pilot in
the United States Air Force and has all these hours
of training, all these hours in there, and the other
(49:49):
person's like, I like to ride on the fly fly
And so these are the two people, and we hired
fly fly base it on that that's a fair argument.
By saying that guy was only hired because he's black
might be true, But you can't just say that without
(50:10):
also throwing out there the qualifications, because it sounds like
you're an angry old white guy mad that a black
guy got hired. And again, I don't know this guy.
I presume he doesn't think that, but you're now inviting
that criticism. So this is the argument underway right now
in the unicameral. This is one of the latest arguments now.
(50:31):
The accusation that their dei hires leading to a crisis
in the aviation industry came up a few weeks ago
with now what is apparently daily issues with our our
skies or trying to get in the skies or trying
to get down from the skies, which brings me to
(50:53):
this headline. The Babylon b is a satirical news website
and they have a dark headline that is marinating in satire,
and it's probably going to cause some people to be
outraged that I'm even reading.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
This, even though it's fake.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
It's totally fake. Here's the headline. Delta adds a little
hanging tennis ball to end of runway for female pilots.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
That is awesome. That is funny. I don't care. That's funny.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
You understand not everyone's gonna find that funny.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
I do. I'd say lighting up.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
Speaking of Delta, Delta was the airline that landed on
the runway there in Toronto and then came crashing to
a stop, flipping over, losing its wings. I mean, it
(52:08):
was just horrible. Went belly up as a crash landed
on the airstrip there in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (52:14):
That happened to hawk Hawk. Yeah he lost a wing. Hawk,
the hawk Man or whatever, the marble.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
Guy, please share more of this.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
The marble guy wasn't his name?
Speaker 1 (52:33):
Hawk Falcon, that guy who's now Captain America what occasionally
loses a wing. It doesn't seem to slow him down much.
He's Falcon anyway. Usually people aren't on Falcon at the
time he might lose a wing. In this case, there
were eighty people on board, and it's amazing because I
(52:58):
want to make sure I know what I'm talking talking
about here, m yeah, every I wanted to say, and
no one died, And like, is that true? There's been
so many I want to make sure. Yeah, about eighty
people on board and no one died. So Delta said,
here's what we're doing. If you were on that flight,
(53:20):
here's thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
To hang upside down for a while. I wished i'd
been on that flight.
Speaker 1 (53:29):
Now. See, I didn't know if you were going to
say that's not that's a paltry sum based on what
they went through, or if you were going to say,
all right, so they had a rough landing and hung
upside down for a little bit, I'd take thirty thousand
dollars for that at all.
Speaker 2 (53:47):
Yeah, do I have to give some taxes?
Speaker 1 (53:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
I would say, give me thirty thousand dollars and then
you pay the taxes, So give me thirty five thousand
and forty thousand whatever.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
Yeah. And if you're thinking like that's not a lot
of money, well, the people on the US Airways flight
that landed on the Hudson River, that's the solely Sullenberger deal.
The company sent them five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (54:13):
Well, yeah, but those thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
Yeah, they didn't end up upside down. They had to
go out on the cold Hudson and they lost their luggage.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
That five thousand was supposed to cover your luggage.
Speaker 1 (54:26):
Job and say for luggage lost in the waters, five
thousand dollars. So if you're thinking, well, yeah, this thirty
thousand dollars, don't take it because if you take it now,
you're basically given permission not to sue Delta. Right, No,
Delta says thirty thousand dollars a person, no strings attached.
You can I bet you can still sue us. Oh really, yep,
(54:52):
no strings attached. It doesn't affect your rights to sue
or what you might get in anything else. We just
what's the game? We wanted to give you thirty thousand dollars,
which is an interesting sum of money because there was
there was a meeting, right, how much should we give them?
Twenty five thousand dollars That doesn't seem like enough, one
(55:12):
hundred thousand that seems like too much. So now you're
starting negotiating and you just come up with thirty thousand
dollars and people just stare, all right, no argument, fine,
thirty grand, thirty thousand dollars a lot of money. Someone
gives you thirty thousand dollars, You're like, oh, thanks.
Speaker 2 (55:32):
I got to write home too, right.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
Yeah, I'm still gonna sue you for everything I can get.
And they're like that's fine.
Speaker 2 (55:39):
No, no, no, I'm saying after the crash, they they let them.
They got the people home wherever they were supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (55:47):
Oh you mean if they needed to be on another flight, right, I imagine, yeah,
I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (55:52):
Many people then I'll take the thirty.
Speaker 1 (55:54):
Right, I don't know how many people were like, yeah,
I'll take the next Delta flight out here. That's true,
Like you know what is Southwest flying out of here today?
Or anyone any literally anyone else? You know what, I'll walk?
Speaker 2 (56:05):
Might I meet your pilot?
Speaker 1 (56:06):
Right? Thirty thousand dollars doesn't soothe any of the trauma
of the situation. It's still thirty thousand dollars. I'm sure
they're happy to take it. I mean happy, but they're
taking it. Ken the email Scott atkfab dot com and
the Zonker's custom woods in box. I'm Scott Voorhe's here
(56:28):
with Lucy Chapman on news radio eleven to ten KFAB
and that says, now, how about this Trump just announced.
I don't know that he announced. He speculated that maybe
with the savings of DOGE, he would take half of
the or small percentage of the savings and pay down
the debt. And then he'd take another small percentage of
the savings, like twenty percent of the savings and divvy
(56:50):
it up among Americans. And it turns out each household
in America would get like five thousand dollars due to
the cost savings from DOGE. Ken emails and says, I
wish they'd put it against the debt instead, But wouldn't
it be interesting would the protesters who hate Trump, who
hate Elon, who hate Doge, would they cast those checks
(57:12):
or would they protest by burning those checks? Ken I
think we know the answer to that question. Scott Voices,
mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven ten KFAB
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