The Morning After

How's everyone feeling after Nebraska's primary election, especially Dan Frei?

Episode Transcript

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Scott Vord. Here's my big assessmentlooking at the numbers of yesterday's primary election
in Nebraska. By the way,good morning, I'm Scott for He's here
with Lucy Chapman on Nebraska's news,weather and traffic station news Radio eleven ten
KFAB. We look at the statewidenumbers and the big races. Trump got

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eighty percent support. Senator Fisher goteighty percent support. Senator Ricketts got eighty
percent support. First District Congressman MikeFlood got eighty percent support. Second district
Congressman Don Bacon, who the racewas called early last night, and as

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the numbers ever reflected in the updatesthat followed, it was a convincing win
for Don Bacon. But Bacon gotsixty percent support. Heading into a November
or November general election challenge against DemocratTony Vargas in not nearly as good as

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shape as the other incumbents here inwhether it's a state ride, Senate race
or a congressional race. He's notin near as good as shape as the
other ones, And a lot ofpeople are saying, all right, well,
does this mean that Tony Vargas willbe Nebraska's next second district member of
Congress, or will the Bacon peopleand the fry people manage to get together?

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We welcome onto the program Don Bacon'sprimary challenger from last night, Dan
Frye, joins us here on newsRadio eleven to ten kfab Dan, this
was not the outcome you were hopingfor. But what are your thoughts after
this second attempt to unseat a Republicanin the state primary? Well, Scott,

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as you well know, anytime yourun up gets an incumbent, especially
if they've been there for a while, it's an uphill climb. But it
was a battle that was worthy tobe had. So my thoughts are is
that while the outcome is not whatwe thought it was going to be,
or not what we had hoped thatit was going to be grateful that I
had the opportunity to do it.I will tell you, Sally and I,

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my wife and I feel blessed thatwith some of the folks that we've
come in contact with, had hadthe opportunity to meet and work with.
So, you know, again it'snot the outcome that we were hoping for,
but it's what we what we thoughtwe needed to do, what we
thought we were called to do.Glad we did it, and if I

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had it to do again, Iwould have done it all over again.
So it's it's all good in away. You have done it again.
We had this conversation about a decadeago and it was a similar, closer
but as ultimately similar, similar resultagainst Congressman Lee Terry. You joined me
on the radio the morning after andsaid that you had not called him to

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concede, and you would not callhim. Did you ever talk to Lee
Terry and concede that race? Oris that's still hanging out there because we
can call him Lee. Lee andI did have a conversation and again that
that that race was was somewhat contentious, and uh Lee had reached out,
and uh, you know, Iended up taking him out to breakfast.

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We met, we spoke, anduh shortly thereafter, you know, we
we we came together, but ittook a while. It took a while.
So that, uh, this raceis very similar to that. And
you mentioned that that Don Bacon isnot nearly as good of a position as
as what the others might be.And I would, I would, I

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would have to agree. But youknow, when when you look at the
constituents. And when when you sayhe's not nearly a good of a position
that that he would like to be, I mean, is that a reflection
of what he's done in Congress oris that a reflection of the constituents.
I would say that, you know, those that are gonna win elections are
representing the folks that are in theirdistrict and what's important to them. Well,

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in a primary election, it's youdon't want to be the member of
Congress who just ends up on thislist that came out from the Luger Center
and McCourt School, a public policyat Georgetown University, that showed the top
ten most bipartisan members of Congress inboth the Senate and the House, and

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in the top ten in the Houseof bipartisan members of Congress, meaning that
you occasionally side with the other side. There's Nebraska second District Congressman Don Bacon's
name on that list. In aprimary election, you got a lot of
people who take a look at thatand they don't like it. In a
general election, though, you've gota lot of people, including this giant

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number of independents in Nebraska's second District, that take a look at that and
go, yeah, I like aguy who does that. So you can
look at this and go all right. So Bacon's not in as good a
spot with sixty percent support in Nebraska'ssecond district as some of these others.
But what kind of spot do yousee the Nebraska Republican Party in. They
failed to endorse any of these incumbents, and each of their candidates yourself included

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loss yesterday, some of them resoundingly. So now we've gotten until November and
the State Republican Party, it's gotto be having a conversation. I had
their chair, Eric Underwood, asyet to give back to me this morning
to be on the radio. Anda lot of people are looking at this
as a as a dumpster fire headinginto November. How do you look at
it? I can tell you rightnow that I think the state Party and

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the leadership that they've got is thebest position they've been in in decades.
When you look at that party,and again it's a party, it's a
party that's in the midst of change. But where they're heading and where they're
taking this, it's truly a partyof buying for the people. It's no

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longer a party of just a fewat the top that are going to tell
them the rest of those that area part of that that organization when to
speak and when not to speak.So you know, to think that we're
going to come out and turn thisaround overnight, it's it's it's not going
to happen. But I think it'sheaded in a fantastic direction. I think

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the leadership is spot on with wherethey're taking it. And I think that
when you look at the numbers ofthe people that are involved in the in
the county parties now at the stateand at the at the county level,
they're growing the base. And that'swhat we've got to do. The elections
and the winning of the elections willcome. It's not going to happen overnight.
But if if you ever get tospend much time with with Eric Underwood,

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you will look at that man asa man that is a man of
his core convictions and values that arein line with with where this country needs
to head. So I like whatI see. I've had a lot of
comments on the radio, and I'llreiterate them this morning here and just a
bit regarding what happened with this fracturein the state Republican Party from my viewpoint,

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and I see fault on both sides. But when you say that the
State Republican Party is in better shapethan they've ever been. While I agree
with you about Eric Underwood, Ilike him. I like Dan Welch who
was head of the State Party beforethat. When you say that the State
Republican Party is in great shape andthey endorsed John Glenn Weaver, another guy

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I like, for his race againstPete Ricketts. Ricketts, by the way,
one of the biggest donors to theState Republican Party previously. John Glenn
Weaver got less than fifteen percent supportin his race. So when you look
at the numbers here, it's kindof hard to make that argument that the
State Republican Party is in all thisgreat shape. Here's where I'm If you're

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looking for individuals to be at thehead of this party and they're going to
be putting roles of leadership or electedoffice because of the amount of money that
they donate, I would tell youthat our values and our principles are in
the wrong place. Do you thinkthat Pete Ricketts earned eighty percent support because

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he because he had more money?You know what, do you think money
influences the outcome of elections. Ithink the answer to that question is most
definitely. Now, did he earneighty percent because of the money, I
don't know, but I can tellyou if you spend time with John Glenn
Weaver, you can't come away frommeeting with that man and talking to him

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and saying that's that's the type ofguy that I want to represent me.
John Glenn Weaver is a good man. He's a great man, wonderful.
Yeah, and I would have himrepresent me any day of the week,
well, the quality of man thathe is. The Rickets might be in
better shape in his race against thepressed in Love. But going back here
in Nebraska second District, I thinkthat rick Its can probably get by Preston

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Love Junior in November without the JohnGlenn Weaver sect of this statewide senate race.
I don't know. I don't Iwould think that Rickets is probably in
a good position for him for hisrace in the fall. I don't know
that Don Bacon can do the samewithout the dan Frye voters getting behind him
in November. So you're you're thedan Frye of the dan fry voting block

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here have you talked with Congressman Baconsince last night? Do you plan on
talking with him, and how doyou foresee him earning your endorsement and support
for the November general election. Here'swhere I'm Ascott, and the answer to
your question is, I have notspoken to him. He hasn't reached out.
I haven't reached out. I thinkwe're probably still still looking at last

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night. It was a late night, early morning. I've been up since
a little bit after four working inpulling signs, so not necessarily the way
I wanted to spend my morning.But here's what I know, whether it's
in this race or the last race, I've never gotten anyone or any organization's
endorsement that I didn't pursue. Soyou know, I trust that Congressman Bacon

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and I will probably speak sometime soon, but we'll we'll see what happens there.
But again, I've never received theendorsement of anybody or any organization that
I haven't pursued. So but no, he and I haven't spoken yet.
No one is suggesting that you arenot a strong conservative. Do you want
a strong Democrat Tony Vargas to winthis district in November No, absolutely not,

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absolutely not. So if you're askingme, am I going to get
behind Tony Vargas, I can tellyou if Tony Vargus called me and tried
to make a case for an endorsement, I'm a no. I'm a no.
So if there's a narrative that's floatingaround there that Dan probably wants Tony
Vargas, which I know some werefloating that around during this primary, it's

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absolutely not true. I've never everendorsed or voted for Tony Vargas, And
I won't last question here for you. Dan. Yeah, you know you
you've been a political outsider, andeven though you've run for this seat now
twice in a primary election, you'reyou're generally considered to be a political outsider,

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and you you would rather spend timewith your family than you know,
backslapping with a bunch of lobbyists anddoing all the rest of this stuff to
put yourself in a position where youdrive around this town and you see big
signs on the on the side ofthe roads Dan Fry for Congress, and
you see these all over town,and you've seen the support that you've earned.

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Just how does that I mean whenyou say you got any sleep last
night, I don't know how whenwhen you get to this part in the
race and it looks like, uh, this is the finish line maybe for
the the for the rest of yourpolitical care Here when you look back here
on this race and all the peopleyou've met, and how this turned out

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here just seeing your name and ona sign on the side of the road
all over town, what are yourthoughts here? If you just take a
breath and think about where you arehere this morning, the day after this
primary loss against Don Bacon, Ican tell you it's It's got nothing to
do with with Dan Fry. It'sobviously it does to the extent that I'm

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I've been the candidate twice. Youknow, it's seeing my name on the
on a sign ers, you know, hearing hearing ads on the radio.
That's not what moves me. Whatwhat moves me, Scott, is the
people that I meet on the campaigntrail, and the people that I meet
at the county and state party meetings, the doors that I knock on.

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You know, when when we gotinto this, we were hesitant to get
into it a second time because itis it's it's it's it's an ugly endeavor
in many ways, but in awhole lot of ways, it is a
blessing. And when I don't Idon't, I don't take it lightly when
I say that Sally and I havebeen blessed with the opportunities that we've had

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to run for office twice. It'sthe relationships and the people that you meet
and you realize that they've got thesame concerns, they've got the same issues
and the same challenges for what's what'scoming out of DC and and what impact
that has on their lives and theirfamily and their kids. But you start
you start to look at that andyou realize that that you might represent their

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hope for brighter tomorrow, for theirkids or for themselves. And that's that's
when I take away from this,and I'm honored to to be that that
that person that gives them that thathope and opportunity for better tomorrow. So
that's that's my takeaway. And mytakeaway is that you lost the primary election

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yesterday, but you are maybe thebiggest factor in November's election despite not having
come out on top in the primary. Let's not have this be the last
conversation. Certainly, Dan, Igot people here in the inboxes say my
heart's broken that Dan didn't win.And I got people that say, you're
delusional. So you are officially apolitician. Now you're getting it from Oh,

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now you're breaking my heart. Pleasedon't hake that title on me.
That's never my intentions to be apolitician. And I will tell you what,
if I'm delusional, then it's agood place to be because I sincerely
I'm blessed beyond belief. And justto break some news here, and it
was broken last night. And Idon't know how many times I've set across
from you and said, hey,at the end of the day, this

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isn't about me. It's about thelife we're leaving behind for my grandkids.
And when I first ran, ihad two and one on the way.
This time I had ten. WhatI didn't realize is that this entire time
I've been running, I've got elevengrandkids. I've got a new granddaughter that's
coming in October. So, friend, if I'm delusional, then it's a

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great place to be because I'm blessedbeyond belief. So they're all good.
There are people who say that areeither very happy, satisfied, people surrounded
by loved ones or they're in amental institution. So we'll remains to be
seen on you. Dan, Hey, I always enjoy talking with you.
We're not going to go another decadebefore we at least chat on some level

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again here. Thank you very muchfor the time. I know it's a
tough morning for you, and Iappreciate the time here. Dan, thank
you very much. It's been agreat morning. I appreciate you calling all
right, Dan, Dan Fry,he's he was the guy from the state
Republican Party standpoint. We want himto beat the incumbent in this primary election.

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I'll tell you what as I lookat some of the rest of the
numbers in other races, what theysay to me. But we'll start with
our look here at a national storyand assessment before the results came out last
night. What others in the politicalgame as they looked at Nebraska in this
fractured Republican Party, what they thinkabout what we've done here in Nebraska.

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That's coming up here in two minutes. Scott for Yes News Radio eleven ten
kfab and here is an assessment fromthe Associated Press and one of the most
this was yesterday leading up to theresults we saw last night. In one
of the most closely watched congressional racesthis year, US Representative Don Bacon of

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Nebraska is looking to defeat a fellowRepublican and Tuesday's primary election. In his
quest for reelection, he'll have todo it without the support of the state
Republican Party, which has endorsed hisprimary challenger. Bacon, whose district includes
the state's largest city of Omaha,isn't the only one being snubbed. The

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Nebraska GOP, which was taken overby Donald Trump loyalists during a contentious state
convention in twenty twenty two, hasrefused to endorse any of the Republican incumbents,
who hold all five of the state'scongressional seats. How did we get
here? Little history? Lesson here, don't fall asleep. It's a quick

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history lesson. The Nebraska State RepublicanParty was headed up by a bunch of
people who are quite loyal to peoplelike Pete Ricketts. Is that because Pete
Ricketts spending a bunch of money andbuying them off, or because Pete Ricketts
is a popular politician in this state, A popular guy. People like Pete

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Ricketts. I've seen Governor slash SenatorRicketts out in public at a number of
different events, and I see theway the people come up to him.
They want to be around him.He wants to be around them, and
he wins elections. He's a winnerin the state, and he loves going
out there, rolling up his sleevesand working hard for the down ballot candidates

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in the Republican Party. Sometimes that'swith a personal visit, sometimes he writes
a check. The guy has gottenstuff done. But there was a problem
with this very populous group of Republicansin the state of Nebraska. They're a

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small group of people will go withthis, maybe a seventy five twenty five
split of the more Ricketts type NebraskaConservatives. And then you've got people who
they've voted for Ricketts and they probablywill again, but they want to see
something different. They want these theseRepublicans in Nebraska to be much more trumpy.

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They want him maga hat wearing,they want him out there, they
want them on Fox News saying I'mgonna hold up this legislation and I'll not
only shut this Congress down, wewill bring this government shutdown right in for
a landing, but I'll burn thisplace to the ground if I have to
until Marjorie Taylor Green is elected Speakerof the House. You know, these

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people want that, like I wantmy people to be out there saying Biden
stole the election in twenty twenty asthey stand there arm in arm with the
guy selling pillows. So this twentyfive percent, they want that and only
that. And if you say,look, I appreciate your support, I
appreciate your passion. Another way tolook at there's no other way to look

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at this. And so you kindof had this budding of heads in the
State Republican Party where the and I'msorry to attach Pete Rickett's name to this,
but where the Rickets wing of theState Republican Party screwed up was they
had a big convention and they havebasically told this twenty five percent, like,
look, you guys are a bunchof disruptors. There's apparently no way

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to make you happy, there's noway to pacify you. Guys. You're
a pain in the neck. Andif you don't want to be a part
of what we're doing over here,then don't come to the state convention.
And that's where things got ugly.A guy was arrested and things at that
state convention in twenty twenty two,and CARNEI got ugly. But it started

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well before that when some of thesepeople were Ron Paul acolytes, and they
showed up in relatively small numbers ata state convention for the Republican Party years
before that, and they got quicklyshut down, like we don't even want
to hear what you guys have tosay. We're just shutting this down.
You guys aren't going to have anyleadership in this party. Thanks for coming.
You're welcome to go knock on doors, but please just pipe down a

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little bit. Just what you guysare selling right now, people in Nebraska
are generally buying. We're not interestedin hearing from you. Well, of
course, being ignored like that makespeople mad, and that's why they showed
up in twenty twenty two in Carneyin much bigger numbers. They armed with
knowledge, armed with passion, armedwith wanting change, armed with getting mad

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about the results in twenty twenty,mad about President Biden calling them all a
bunch of people who are a threatto our democracy, and they took it
out on the more Ricketts wing ofthe State Republican Party, and this time
they knew what they were doing andthey were able to get in. They
infiltrated, and this small group ofpeople defended the Alamo, so to speak.

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They took over the leadership and theysaid, all right, all you
guys, who are the old guardhere? The country Club Republicans that were
calling you guys, you're all gone, And they took over because they showed
up. No, the people whowere previously in leadership ignored them, they
took them for granted, and theydidn't think they could pull this off,

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and they were wrong. Now theydidn't take their ball and go home.
They've still been mobilizing a pretty goodcampaign, as evidenced by the fact that
as you look at these races again, Fisher eighty percent, Rickets eighty percent,
Flood eighty percent, Bacon got hissixty percent. Can he get that
to something closer to one hundred percentof the Rickets Republicans and the Dan Frye

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slash Trumpy Republicans. Can he getthat there by November? Because if he
doesn't, he will no longer beNebraska's second district Congressman. I don't think
we had a lot of nonpartisan votescast yesterday in a primary election here in
Douglas County, which is pretty impressivesince if you're nonpartisan, you don't get

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to vote for too much. Hereare some legislative races, the city charter
amendments, all the rest. Wehad over a ten six hundred nonpartisan ballots
cast here, and that's enough ifyou get enough of those to swing one
way or the other that candidate winsNebraska's second congressional district in November. Does

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Don Bacon get more of those nonpartisanindependent voters by continuing to be the Don
Bacon has won election after election,or does he need to try and bring
in the more trumpy wing of theRepublican Party Or is it better for him
to court a more liberal, purplishdot in Nebraska's second district. You know,

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it's kind of hard for me ifwe're just looking at wins and losses
default what Congressman Bacon has been doing. What he's been doing has been winning.
A lot of people in a Republicanprimary don't like it, but it
has been a solid streak of winning. Will it continue in November, Well,
that's up to you. But Iimagine that the state Republican Party.

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These people in leadership who have hadsome really nice events. I've been asked
for years, Hey, would youcome MCE this event for whether it's Youth
Republicans that's not the name of thegroup, a young Republican group, whether
it's the Douglas County Republican Party orthe State Republican Party, Scott, no
one else will hang out with us. Would you come MC this event?

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Sure, I've got nothing else todo, and I like you guys.
That's fine. By the way,if the State Democratic Party ever asked me
to MC something, I would jumpat the chance. That would be be
a riot. I've mceed a lotof these events for these groups, and
I've seen big crowds of people forthis old leadership in the Republican Party and

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small groups of people for this newleadership in the Republican Party. That's not
to say these guys are a bunchof losers. No, it's to say
that if that former group, thebigger crowd, doesn't do a better job
of embracing the smaller crowd, youcan't afford to lose thirty twenty five percent
support of your base and expect towin in November not if you're Don Bacon,

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I don't think so. Yeah,we just talked with Dan Frye.
He lost yesterday, but I thinkhis name continues to loom very large ahead
of November's election. We'll see ifthese guys can get on the same page.
Yes, there was more than onerace yesterday. We'll talk about some
of the rest of them next,Scott fordes where you're going a few different

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things coming up here today a programNote, I, because of circumstances beyond
which I prefer to control here today, we don't generally take phone calls during
this show. Simple fact is Idon't want to talk to you. No,

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I mean I don't have anyone toanswer the phone during this program.
And it doesn't mean we don't doit from time to time, and I
would be doing it today, butfor one thing. Program note, I'm
also going to be on your radiohere today from two to six this afternoon
here on news Radio eleven ten KFAB. So a lot of what I'm getting

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here in the Zonkers custom was inboxScott atkfab dot com via email. I
can't wait to talk with you inyour assessment of this eighty twenty split or
when it comes to Bacon's race sixtyforty split when it comes to the conservatives
in Nebraska, that's a conversation.We'll be taking your phone calls on this

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afternoon, not the entire time,but for a bulk of the afternoon here
two to six today. As EmerySonger is out sick today, I'll jump
in and do two to six herethis afternoon. After all, I was
planning on being here throughout the day. Anyway, as I'm heading down the
street for dinner tonight and you areinvited, there are still I think just

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a couple of seats left for thisgourmet club tonight. We are hanging out
with Spaghetti Works. They're celebrating fiftyyears this year, and we want to
celebrate fifty years of family friendly festivitieswith the great Spaghetti Works Old Market location
by getting together with them for theGourmet Club tonight at Spaghetti Works. Again,

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just a couple of spots are availablefor this event. We're gonna eat
until they run out of pasta.You also get your choice of entrees like
spaghetti and meatballs, lasagna, cheese, tortolini, chicken, parmesan eggplant,
parmesan grilled chicken alfredo, or thegluten free cheese ravioli. Your meal includes
salad bar, soft beverage, andof course the garlic bread. I might
just eat garlic bread. I thinkwhat I'll do is I'll grab the garlic

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bread and then I'll go over tothe salad bar because I like a salad
bar that has eggs in it,because that seems like a salad. I
really like a salad bar that haspudding. Every once in a while,
you get a salad bar it's gotputting in it. I'm like, it's
gotta be good for you. It'sin the salad bar. But tonight I'll

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just go over there with the garlicbread and just put the eggs on top
of the garlic bread and just eatthat, just a little egg salad sandwich
with garlic bread. Because my bodyis a temple and I gotta take care
of it. You eat however youwant tonight at the Gourmet Club. If
you're thinking, yeah, I'd behungry for pasta tonight, I'll come hang
out with you. Guys. Callfour O two four two twos zero seven

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seven zero to make a reservation toSpaghetti Works in the Old Market twenty five
dollars for adults, fifteen for kids. Bring those kids four oh two four
two two zero seven seven zero,and I'll see you tonight at six thirty.
I'll be coming in hot, allright. A reference the emails I'm

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getting in the Zonker's Custom Woods inbox, and it's stuff like this. I
don't generally get emails like this,you know, anytime you bring up Don
Bacon, Dan Frye, I gottatell you a lot of the emails are
I'm tired of Don Bacon. He'sgot to go. I want a strong
conservative in there, not some rhinolike Bacon. That's a lot of what

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I get here in the Zonker's CustomWoods inbox today. This email sample here
from Kathy. I will change thelast word in the email. Do you
know what I mean when I say, do you prefer a rhymes with and
go with whitch or do you preferthe word yacht? I always appreciate a
yacht, but you don't swear.You don't even know what that even means.

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No idea, We'll go with therhymes rhymes with on this one.
Kathy emails and says, I justhave to say I voted for Dan Frye,
and now I'm sorry, I did. Anybody with an ounce of class
who loses an election calls their opponentand congratulates them. Otherwise you look like

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a whiny little witch. That's fromKathy said to Scott at kfab dot com.
Look is she referring to the LeeTerry thing and Don Bacon? No,
I thought I heard that he had. No he said he and Lee
Terry eventually got together after two thousandand fourteen, and now it was kind

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of like, you know, he'dcall me. Well, that's not usually
how it works, but I wouldsay someone, this is coming from the
assessment of if you want to winthis seat or win reelection in November,
one of these guys better call theother and figure it out, because I
don't think Don Bacon wins without DanFry's support. Now, I don't know

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know or will people will they seedan Fry's support as ah, He caved,
I'm still not voting for Bake.I don't know long time to go
till November. But when you saythat you don't think that Bacon will have
the support of the people that weresupporting Dan FRYE was what I assume you
were saying or implying. Then whatare these people going to do just not

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vote? What do you think?Because Bacon going up against Vargas, right,
yep, Then if he only gotsixty percent of his own people,
how is this going to play outin the general election. Well, it
depends on those independents whether they likesomeone who's you know, the general consensus

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on these nonpartisan independent swing voters soforth is they're turned off by the real
trumpy stuff and they're also turned offby the real bidendy stuff. So if
you see someone like Don Bacon,they're like, Wow, the herd right
doesn't like him that much. Idon't like the hard right, and uh,

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I don't know. It really kindof depends on how hard left Tony
Vargas is seen, and that's abig part of it. How is he
viewed. I have a feeling Iknow how he would vote when he gets
to Washington. But I think that'sthe way. That is the only thing,

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the only criteria you need when yougo into the general election voting booth
is you have to look at howthey have performed whether obviously Bacon has been
in Congress, Vargas is not,but he still has a record. Yeah,
oh yeah, forgot to do someresearch. Yeap Vargas been in the
unicamel. So we had in DouglasCounty yesterday according to the numbers that came

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out late last night, and theremight be a few more added to this
total. There should be a fewmore added to the total. We had
ninety two thousand, six hundred andfifty two ballots cast total in Douglas County.
Forty six thousand plus were Republican.Only about thirty five thousand were Democrat.

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But the Republicans had a lot moreon the ballot the Democrats. They're
basically running unopposed in a lot ofthese races because no one else wants to
run as a Democrat in some ofthese races for whatever reason. Still,
the Nebraska Democratic Party put out aglowing statement, Oh, we're so glad
to have So there's a look athow many votes Preston Love Junior got.

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Joe Biden really cleaned up in Nebraska. Yeah, this number won't hold up
in November. And that's why Ithink you can look at just one race
here to show what we might belooking at in November. And it comes

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from a Millard Area Legislative District race. District thirty one currently occupied by controversial
State Senator Kathleen Couth. Now,when everything was voting, like I said,
a lot more repup and by theway, about ten thousand, six
hundred plus non partisan votes were cast. Swing votes in November will be a

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premium in terms of who gets what. But I think, even probably more
so than Don Bacon versus Tony Vargas, a lot of Democrat people are going
to be coming out to try andand try and swing LD thirty one.

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Kathleen Couth got a nice sixty toforty victory over and she's, in case
you don't know, very conservative.Boys should play on boys sports teams,
Girls should play on girls sports teams. If you want to have yourself gender
reassignment surgery, please wait until you'reeighteen years of age or older. And

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you know, these are some ofthe things that she has been carrying the
torch for in the unicameral, andfor that she has been despised. So
she got a sixty forty win overDemocratic challenger Mary Ann fultered fulkirt Fulchert.
And she's the Marianne Is promoted bythe Democratic Party. But the Democrats didn't

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come out in full force yesterday.They didn't have to. They will in
November. They look at this as, wow, we didn't have very many
people, as sixty forty is prettybig, but it wasn't like there were
a ton of votes cast. We'retalking about thousand votes or so. So
they look at this as we cando this, we can swing this balance

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of power in this district and getrid of the despise Kathleen Kouf, and
maybe we can take out Don Baker. And while we're at it, anyone
who looks at these the votes andthe turnout and everything in yesterday's primary and
says, oh, it looks likeRepublicans are safe in November, they are
not. You talk about swinging thepower back to Republicans or however, you

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just put that as if that's what'sactually happening right now. You have a
lot of Republicans in Congress right now, they're not exactly voting Republican in the
Republican way. I'm only eating thetail of this whale. You're talking about
the whole whale. I am talkingabout the whole thing I'm looking at.

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I'm looking at specific little spots onthe whale tail. And I'm not done.
Because Democrats aren't exactly in harmony withother Democrats. A couple of other
big races to watch based on whathappened yesterday, OPS Subdistrict five. Spencer
Head is probably really the only loneconservative voice on the Omaha school Board and

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he'd be pretty good by Democratic challengerJenny magnuson. How will that look when
it comes to November. That's abig race here in Omaha. But another
one is in Legislative District eleven.Ernie Chambers and incumbent Terrell McKinney dead heat
pretty much neck and neck. Youcan't slide a piece of paper between them.

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How's that going to look in November? Who is going to be supported?
The state Democrats support McKinney and notErnie Chambers. Here's another reason why
I got a little rye smile onmy face. Lucy, does this look
to you like a rye smile ordoes it look like pumpernickel? Sometimes it's
difficult to determine sour dough easily.It is a sour dough smile, that's

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Lucy. I'm Scott looking at yesterday'sprimary election numbers. There's another legislative district
that I kind of took a lookat and went ah, that's good stuff
there. In Legislative District seven,Southeast Omaha, Ben Salazar, who is

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often referred to as a community organizerSouth Omaha community leader. He's the first
one to come running to the newsanytime he feels like his community has been
disenfranchised or something happens in South though, and the media is like, well,
we know Ben Salazar. We'll usuallytalk to us. He won't talk

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to me. I will go backover that well trod path with Ben Salazar
and me, okay, maybe alittle bit. I made an ovation to
him to see how could we couldwork together. And once I stopped.
Once he reached out to me withfighting words and I didn't return with fighting

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words. He lost his use forme. Still waiting to hear back from
Ben. It's only been eighteen years, so I mean, maybe maybe he'll
get back to me. Anyway.Ben Salazar is still the go to person
in media. You see him allthe time on TV. I'm in charge
of this community. People love mehere. Well. He ran for legislature,

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which is impressive, and I honestlysincerely give him credit for doing so.
And I give more credit to thepeople in that district the top two
advanced to November. Sorry, Bencame in third. Came in third.
Wow, But I turn on thenews, he's all over the news.
I thought he was the guy.Maybe this is another Ben Salazar. So

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between that in South Omaha and ErnieChambers neck and neck with Terrell McKinney in
Northeast Omaha and Legislative District eleven,maybe there are some people saying, you
know, we've followed some of thesevoices for generation that said you vote for

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me, you follow me, andI'm gonna get you to the promised Land,
and were not in the promised land. Some people are generationally stuck in
the same place that you said youget us out of forty years ago.
Why are we in the same,if not worse shape. Maybe we need

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some new voices. Maybe we alsohad the charter amendments in the City of
Omaha. They all passed. Theone I thought would be close was not
amendment for which we had some funwith yesterday, wondering if it was a

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plot by Omaha's most senior city cabinetmember who lives within the City of Omaha,
who would end up assuming the roleof mayor. If the mayor and
every member of the city council weresuddenly killed by the cicada outbreak or something.
Hey, you never know, areyou ready for the cicada outbreak?

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It's happening. I saw images fromMissouri. It's horrible. You don't know
what they're capable of. So ifthe mayor and all the members of the
city council are all killed by thecicadas, then suddenly the leadership in the
city of Omaha goes to the mostsenior member of the mayor's cabinet who fulfills
the residency requirement, which in thiscase would be city Attorney Matt Couzy.

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Is this all a plot by Mattcoozy to I don't know. His bloodlust
may know no bounds. I don'tknow. Is this all part of a
plan for him to take over inOmaha? Maybe because Amendment four passed.
Do you think that you had ahand in that passing by making fun of
it? No, you did pointout how ridiculous it was. I think

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it's funny. Well, why wouldthey even need it? You're talking about
eight people, nine people. They'renot gonna all die. Yeah, Well,
and if they do, you don'tprobably most of us have. Yeah,
well, look, am I soimaginative to come up with a scenario
where they die and the rest ofus are alive? Going wow, look,

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I can't believe that. Sure Ican come up with that scenario.
I'm sure you could. And rightnow, my scenario involves death by the
hand of Matt Cousey. Oh right. I don't think. I don't know
the guy. I've heard he's agood guy and he does good job as
a city you know, the cityattorney. But I don't. I don't

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know if he's capable of whatever.You never know. I am not familiar
with him. Never know. Youknow, in his garage there might be
a chainsaw in there. You neverknow. But it was Amendment six I
thought would be pretty close, whichsays that you can suddenly, without council
approval, the mayor can just startawarding right now. It's contracts up to

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twenty thousand dollars with no council approval, just hand them out like candy on
Halloween, and Amendment six moves thatfrom up to twenty to up to fifty
thousand dollars. Again, an imaginativescenario by which a mayor down the line,
I'm not talking about you Jean Stylert, some crooked mayor down the line
can just start handing out contracts tobuddies. Hey, you never know.

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And I thought that one might endup being defeated, if not really close.
It wasn't close. It passed,no problem. There were six amendments.
Five of them passed no problem.The one that almost lost is the
one I had to take eighteen additionallooks at to say, now, wait,

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what is this even about? Amendmentone. What it says is shall
Section two point one five of theHome Rule Charter of the of Omaha,
which describes the process for granting,extending, changing, or modifying the terms

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of franchises within the City of Omahabe removed all that's provided in the notice
of election. What does that mean? It also basically, what it essentially
means is nothing the state statute alreadyprovided for that which wasn't already in Omaha's

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specific charter. It was going tohappen anyway. This was just, Hey,
we got to put it out therefor the people to vote on,
just because everyone's already past this.It's already provided for in the state.
And it almost failed. Twenty nine, four hundred and forty nine people said,
sure, whatever you guys need.Twenty eight thousand, one hundred and

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sixty eight people said, I don'tlike the sound of this. I look
at it and go, I don'tknow what this sounds like. It ensures
public and maybe this is it publicinvolvement and fair compensation when granting or modifying
franchises, which if you're like youmean like a subway franchise like McDonald's.

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No, it's rights to use cityresources for public services. And even that
is kind of like, all right, let's drill down even further. What
are we talking about? And maybemy brain's not big enough to wrap itself
around this, but it seems tobe the only thing we're talking about here
is cable communication systems, internet,telephone TV, so and what do they

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want to use it for? II don't know. But twenty eight one
hundred and sixty eight people felt verystrongly about this and said, over my
dead buddy, so maybe one ofyou can tell me what was so odious
about this, which was already doneat the state level. In fact,

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if this would have failed yesterday,I think it still would have passed,
because it was like a, oh, we were just kidding you don't really
get to vote, right. It'slike when your spouse asked you a question
that gives you two options and youalready know the answer, but it just
as a courtesy, They've given youthe option here, but you know the

(46:20):
answer, and so even if youchose the wrong answer, it was going
to be like are you sure?Because I was like, oh, yeah,
that's what I meant. Thanks forincluding me. But I don't think
this would have gone anywhere. Idon't know people, and I thought like,
all right, did I miss something? Is there a website? Is
there a campaign somewhere people going voteno on Amendment No? I don't know

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what happened here, but I didhear you say the word compensate. So
if they're going to use my cableor my internet, do I get paid
for that? Right? But itwould it would be compensation to the city
from the franchises if this were tobe voting no. Yeah, if this

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were to be voted no, thensome of these franchises, which already have
the ability to construct operate cable communicationssystems within the city, wouldn't have to
pay the city as much. Somaybe that's where it is, and uh,
there'd be less public oversight of it, like we're just going to do
whatever we want. So that's ifit didn't pass. But it passed,

(47:32):
but barely. Hopefully you'll get ananswer from somebody. Yeah, that's why
I'm rubbing the sleeve out of myeyes here, going all right, what
did I miss here? Now?If you voted at Omaha Scott High School
yesterday, you couldn't miss this.I'll tell you about it next. Scottes

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Smooze Radio e kfab and the Zonker'scustom was inbox. Scott at kfab dot
com. I suspect that this nearfailure on City Amendment one when everything else
passed with really no problems, mightbe due to what Rob says here.

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Scottikfab dot com says, when peopledo not understand something, they just vote
no about two thirds of the time. Yeah, I cannot work on my
acts. If you took an actand you got a yes no. All

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right, here's a there's a mathproblem. If one train leaves Cincinnati at
nine forty am, traveling west atsixty five miles per hour, and another
train leaves Chicago at what point willthey derail and be completely ignored by the
Biden administration. No, like,that's not the answer. I wondered why

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I kept having to write it in. Usually I don't tell people how I
vote. But my general assessment,which is sometimes followed sometimes not, is
when a city of municipality comes andsays we want to make a change on
something, we want you to votefor it, I always do a quick
assessment. Is what they're asking me? Is there a problem that needs to

(49:22):
be fixed by what they're asking me? Or do they need to figure it
out? And if I don't seea problem that needs to be fixed by
what they're asking me to fix,I just vote now figure it out so
you would fix it? No,they need to fix it. It's why
we put you in place to beginwith. Like, hey, we created

(49:43):
this group of elected officials and theycame back and said, we can't figure
this out. Can you do it? Like, hey, I already put
you in there. This is whywe hire good people and put them there.
You put way too much thought intoit. I look at it and
say, how will I benefit?Yeah, you look at it and go
I didn't know I had to thinkcoming in here for this ballot. See

(50:07):
see see, I wonder someone whosename, Like there are some people whose
last name is Sea. Is there. Yeah, I wonder if they'd win
sees candy. The answer is alwayssee Yeah. People like that. Now,
if you went and voted yesterday andyour polling place was Omaha Scott Catholic

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High School, some people were mad. They said this is illegal, this
is electioneering, and the whole thingshould be all thrown out. Were Sandwiches
involved, I don't think so.There was a lot of sidewalk chalk all
over the path leading up to thefront doors of Scott and it was put

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there by a group called Skyhawks forLife. Whereas the Omaha United Methodist Church.
And I actually jotted this down.Let's make sure I get the wording
right here. This is a church. Talked the other day about the fracture
over the years between more conservative andmore liberal members of the United Methodist Church.

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Well, here in Omaha, theUnited Methodist Church up on the hilltop
there off a seventy second and castI said, I drive by and I
always take a look because that growingup was my church. It's where I
was baptized, it's where I wasconfirmed, and it's where my parents were

(51:38):
married. So I always take alook at that church. I have a
lot of love for that church.I got a lot of questions for the
church, but I hope that's nota bad thing. But I noted that
their digital sign out front as alwaysrainbow colored, have a great day with
rainbow, And I think, okay, well, it's rainbow, is a

(51:58):
beautiful thing. And then it switchesand says everyone is welcome here and it's
rainbow colored, And I'm like,is this a club? Like if I
go in there, is it forChrist? Or what's going on in here?
The other day I drove by andit said reproductive rights are human rights?

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Like, is this a church advocatingfor abortion? Now that's a little
difficult for some people to swallow.Hence the fracture in more conservative and more
progressive church goers in the Methodist church. So at Scott Catholic High School,

(52:45):
they did the sidewalk chalk and stufflike choose life. You know that you
know pro life, you know.It was very clear pro life messages all
over, but you weren't vo onanything that had anything to do with abortion.
Haha. And that is why peoplewent to the Douglas County election commissioner

(53:08):
and said, this is electioneering.Any signs anything you can't be campaigning.
You can't be in there wearing ahat that says I love Don Bacon.
And when you're in there, that'selectioneering. And once you get on the
property of the campaign, that's whythe signs are all like out there on
the fringe and everything, then thisis improper electioneering. And a Douglas County

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election commissioner took a look and saidit isn't. There was no issue nor
any specific candidate associated with abortion inthis primary. Now, if in we
have an opportunity to vote on changeto the Nebraska state Constitution as it relates

(53:51):
to this issue in November, thenyou wouldn't be able to do that.
But as that was not the caseyesterday, you could do it. They
did do it, And I look, look, I always say this is
a really, really tough issue,and I honestly believe that there are some

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good people on all sides. Anddidn't Trump get universally beloved by saying that
they're good people on both sides.So I'll just go with that. I
think that there are people who honestly, even those who would say, well,
I wouldn't do it, but Ican envision where someone might need it.
Look, I I'm not automatically demonizinganyone for having a well thought out

(54:42):
conversation about when what starts and whenit should end and so forth. Now
you got some people who don't thinkit should ever end. Are FK Junior.
Apparently, by the way, yousee the Babylon b satirical joke on
RFK Junior, I have not whos oh this one was? This was
below the belt, which made melaugh because I happened to like that kind

(55:04):
of thing. But man, wasthis low our FK Junior seemed to indicate
he would not approve any restrictions onabortion, like up to the point where
I see the head you can stillchange your mind in RFK Junior's world.
Yeah, but his thoughts on thevaccine, okay, do what you want
in November. But so the BabylonBee satirical website said RFK Junior supports a

(55:28):
woman's right to kill her baby atchap equittic. I was like, oh,
man, wow, wow, uhto drown her fetus at chap equittic
or something like that, Like ohmy gosh, wow. We just we
didn't bother to trouble ourselves with tasteon that one, did We pretty good

(55:51):
though, Yeah, not saying this. I hated it, But so what
was I saying? Oh that peoplewould show up there and see Choose life
and just suddenly get mad all thesestupid Neanderthal knuckle dragon Catholic kids and there
the Catholic high school choosing life andso forth, Like who got mad?

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Like, I'm gonna call somebody,this is an outrage. Now on that
front, there is a professional athletethat you probably heard of, Lucy probably
hasn't, but I think the restof us look like, yeah, yeah,

(56:36):
you don't even know who it is, and you've already liked. I
don't know who it is who hada lot of things to say, quite
political in nature. Didn't know thisguy felt this way? Tell you who
said what? Coming up here laterin the program. Also, we're just
a few minutes away from being joinedby our guest this Friday night for the
next Bruce Crawford Film Event on lineat Omaha Film event dot com. Bruce

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is putting Raiders of the Lost Arkon the big screen, and his guest
is Ben Mankowitz of Turner Classic Movies, and Ben joins us next Scott Boys,
Lucy, we're such big Indiana Jonesfans. In our house, we
have a Christmas ornament of Doctor Jonestaking a look at the idol, you

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know, with a bag of sandin one hand, and looking at the
idol and you push a button onit and it plays this great theme song
from John Williams. That's part ofour Christmas decor at our house. I've
never seen your house at Christmas,and you never will. This Lucy Chapman,
I'm Scott Vorhees. This is Nebraska'snews, weather and traffic station,

(57:45):
news Radio eleven ten KFAB and itis Raiders of the Lost Arc, or
as it has been renamed now,I think it's officially Indiana Jones and the
Raiders of the Lost Arc based onhow these films would be titled after that.
This is going to be on thebig screen again this Friday night,

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seven pm at the Omaha Community Playhouse, the latest event from Omaha's film historian
Bruce Crawford, and our special guestfrom Turner Classic Movies joins us now,
Ben Mankowitz, Welcome to eleven toten KFAB. It's got a pleasure to
be with you guys. Thanks thanksfor having me on. I imagine that
you get feedback at TCM from peoplegoing, how dare you show Indiana Jones

(58:31):
movies on Turner classic movies? Thisis not a William Powell and Myrna Lloyd
film. It has no business onDCM. Well, of course we do.
We get We had all sorts offeedback from our fans, and actually
our fans are really one of thethings that make the place so great.
I mean, they like, wetook on this job in nineteen ninety four

(58:51):
at TCM of being sort of theguardians and the protectors of these movies,
and our fans were, you know, classic movie fans were thrilled by but
they were also like, okay,well, don't screw this up, right.
So anything that suggests that we arenot following the mission sometimes met with
resistance, but it's become less andless as they've become confident that we know
what we're doing. Yes, butthere is always the question of what's a

(59:14):
classic movie, And you know,how could this movie be. You can't
compare it to a thin Man moviewith hal and Marnalli or any you know,
or or or Bogie and Bcall orbog Bergmann. So you know,
and I think whatever anyone's definition ofa classic movie is is good? Like
there is no definition? Right,this is about this is about how these

(59:36):
movies make you feel. There isan element of a radio station that you
grew up listening to that when youwere a kid, played oldies music and
now you turn that station on andyou're like, spin doctors, what right,
No one, little miss, littlemiss can be wrong on playing this
on this station. So all right, looking here at Indiana Jones and The

(59:59):
Raiders of the Lost Arc, whatis it as you look at this film
that made it not only so special, but that which would launch a lot
of sequels in this particular franchise.Well, the easy answer is the is
the one that works for almost anymovie. But answer to that question,
which is like great story, welltold. And you know when movies are

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good and they have a star,and they have some romance, and they
have drama and the excitement and theyhave beating the Nazis, like those are
things that you know, and theyhave this John Williams Stein which you mentioned,
like it just propels you to feel. That's the great thing about movies
that sometimes in this era when lessand less of us are going to theaters
and watching more and more great stuffon television, but that shared experience,

(01:00:42):
that exhilaration that you get from pictureson the screen moving with words and that
music that move you right and people. That's the kind of movie that got
people up out of their seats.And when that movie, when there's a
movie like that it gets people outof your seat figuratively or literally, then
guess what they're going to make more? And when you got a star like
Harrison Ford and people like Steven Spilbergattached to it, you know the sequels

(01:01:05):
are going to be good too.But there's nothing quite like I loved the
fifth movie, by the way,the most recent one I did too.
I did too. Yeah, yeah, it made a ton of money too.
It's just did it cost so muchthat? You know, it's weird
we look at things. All thesestories are about how it's a failure because
it didn't make the seven hundred milliondollars it need to. But like it,
I don't know. I don't evenhave the numbers in front of you.
It made like four hundred million dollars, so a lot of people going

(01:01:27):
to see a movie. Do youhave a favorite? A movie in the
Indiana Jones franchise and by the waythere is a correct answer to this question.
Oh yeah, I mean correct credanswers. Raisers is lost dark.
I don't, I don't. Imean there's I also like the third one
very much much. I like one, three and five Last Last Crusade is
the acceptable answer to that? Wellthat that's the only other I think accept

(01:01:52):
the answer. There's a moment inthe Last Crusade where he's under the catacombs
in the of the library in Cairo, I think, and he's with the
woman and they they're dusting stuff upon the walls and they see dust off
and it's a painting or you know, it's on the walls has been painted
the arc of the Covenant. Shedoesn't know what it is, this woman
who turns out to be a Nazi, and she says, what's that?

(01:02:13):
And he says, that's the Arkof the Covenant And she says, are
you sure he has stated, hegoes pretty sure. Yeah. It's a
great little, great little moment forRaiders who lostar And plus that movie was
was kind of thought to be,well, this is obviously going to be
the end of the franchise. Theyliterally ride off in the sunset together.
It was such a perfect film,and then they thought, you know,

(01:02:35):
let's go back, which I thoughtwas kind of weird for Harrison Ford.
I mean you and following not justthese movies but also the career of one
of the most popular actors of ourgeneration, Harrison Ford, he doesn't always
love to revisit classic characters. I'mthinking Star Wars stuff. Yeah, that's
right, he is. He's notjust one of the greatest stars, he's
really one of the greatest actress.He's really good, and he's really he's

(01:03:00):
was interesting, you know, evenin a bad movie, in which he
didn't make a bad movie for liketwenty straight movies. And I'll tell you
this from having this slightly to getto know Steven Spielberg, super hard guy
to say no to, like youknow, like he's just Stephen's enthusiasm about
these movies is infectious. He hadan idea, you know, they had

(01:03:22):
this, you know, they hada young star, and I think,
you know, you eventually talk himinto it, Like you know, he
doesn't like to say no to friends, people who've been good to him,
so I think that's why he madeit. And then that movie didn't really
work. The fourth one, andand I think that made them both.
I don't really know this to bea fact, but I just assumed that
both of them were like, allright, we got to find a way

(01:03:44):
to end on something good, right, to wrap this up in a way
that people feel good about the franchise. Maybe they don't care about that,
but I think they did, andI think they did a really nice job
with the cut. Well, Iknow you've got a lot to say stories
of this film, and that's whyand that's why we attend these great events
here. Bruce Crawford does a wonderfuljob of putting on these these big film

(01:04:05):
events and the next ones. ThisFriday night, seven o'clock at the Omaha
Community Playhouse, Ben Manklewitz here ofTurner Classic Movies, will be the special
guest and present the nineteen eighty oneclassic film Indiana Jones and the Raiders of
the Lost Ark. Omaha Film Eventdot Com is the website. Last question
for you, Ben, when willTurner Classic Movies do a screening of White

(01:04:28):
House Down. I really think Imade that movie a lot of people talking
about Jamie Foxx and Channing Jaden,but without the reporter talking in the background
about stuff. Nobody pays attention toI don't think people follow the story.
My wife and I are just startingto catch up on movies we missed when
our kids were real little and wedidn't know what was up or down.
So we just saw that a fewweeks ago, and I really enjoyed it,

(01:04:49):
especially your role in it. Wellthank you. Roland Emrick directed that
movie. And you know that isto me, the best sequel to die
Hard. That's like, I mean, it's space, exactly the same style
and it's really and it's really good, really good. You haven't seen White
Us Down. Definitely definitely worth checkingout. You like this kind of movie.
My wife and I are also abig fan of yours on TCM.

(01:05:11):
It was my wife who introduced meto things like the Thinman movies. I'd
never even seen a Carry Grant movieuntil I met this girl who'd become my
wife, and now I'm I'm amajor convert. So if we're if we're
like, what do you want toturn on the TV and watch? It's
Turner classic movies. Ben, Youdid a great job on there. It's
really a pleasure to talk with you, and I hope you have safe travels

(01:05:31):
here to Omaha. And we'll seeyou on Friday night. Looking forward to
coming. Thank you for having meBen Mankowitz of Turner Classic Movies here on
news Radio eleven ten kfa B.Again the screening featuring Ben of Raiders of
the Lost Dark. All the detailsare at Omaha Film event dot com.
Scott Voices, News Radio eleven tenkfaby. So, who said what in

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terms of an athlete that most ofus have heard of? It got some
people all mad. Here's the name, Lucy has not heard of? Harrison
Butker? Any idea boxer? Oh, Harrison Butker is the kicker for the
kicker the Yeah, that'd be good. But he's the kicker for the Kansas

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City Chiefs. Oh, he's abuttker kicker. Yes, he's a butcker
kicker. And he's very very good. He's very good. And was asked
to speak here at Benedictine College lastweekend. Here's some of what he had
to say. He talked to women, he said, you've had women one

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of the most diabolical lies told toyou. How many of you are sitting
here now about to cross the stage, thinking about all the promotions and titles
you're going to get in your career. Some of you may go on to
lead successful careers in the world.I'd venture to guess that the majority of
you are most excited about your marriageand the children you will bring into this
world. I can tell you mybeautiful wife is a belle. Would be

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the first to say her life trulystarted when she started living her vocation as
a wife and as a mother.One of the most important titles of all
is that of homemaker, and homemakersare often looked down on. They're demeaned,
especially among other women. So doeshe get offensive at all? Now
that people were offended, he talkedto the guys too, asked him to

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be unapologetic in their masculinity. Fightagainst the cultural emasculation of men. What
plagues our society? Has the livesbeen told to you that men are not
necessary in the home or in ourcommunities. I like this guy as a
as a kicker. I like himmore as a man. Clay and Buck
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