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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Goes. It is Talktober the second and we're so
glad you're with us this and every month of the year.
But this is our favorite love Talktober. Lucy Chapman is
over there, and I suspect because I said at the
start of the program here i'd be talking about traffic issues. Now,
traffic issues have to do with a lot of different things,
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not just all the tie ups, closures, construction and accidents
and all the rest of that stuff, though there will
be some of that in this little diatribe, but I
want to start here with a traffic stop because more
people are speaking out about this, and the one person
I've been checking every day to see if we're going
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to hear from has not said anything, which is not
the worst thing in the world. Now, I wrote his
statement the other day for him. I said it right
here on the air and said, Terrence Bud Crawford, here's
your statement, And it was something along the lines of
I take responsibility for my actions that caused police to
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pull me over. The other night. We had a great
day in my hometown of Omaha after winning yet another
championship belt in the world of boxing. I'm running out
of room here for all my belts. We come back
to Omaha, have a parade, and not just my honor,
but our honor. We do this together. That's why I
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carry Omaha and Nebraska with me everywhere I go. Had
my birthday party at the Steelhouse. What a great venue,
so many friends were there, was so much fun. And
then I made a poor decision with all the traffic
snarls around town. And I don't know that this is
the reason, but after driving around downtown yesterday, I don't
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blame Bud Crawford. If he went up on the sidewalk.
That is the stupidest place to drive on the whole planet.
I would rather drive across the surface of the moon
than across down town. Right now, there are fewer craters
with construction barrels and barricades around them. So I'm I
don't know what he did to kind of drive around
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the traffic that was snarled between his birthday party and
people getting out of the Keith Urban Concert, which they said, well,
Keith Urban cut. Yeah, but the Keith Urban Concert didn't
get out at one o'clock in the morning, so don't
tell me. Well, he couldn't driven that fast. There was
all that traffic down there. We had Bud Crawford's birthday party,
invite only the Keith Urban concert that got done at
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like ten thirty, and then they said, well there was
also Boomstock at the gene Leshee mal oh, yeah, did
that go until one thirty in the morning. Don't give
me that Bud Crawford couldn't have been driving that fast.
There was all that traffic from all these events one
to thirty in the morning. Anyway, even if it was
just him driving downtown by himself, it's impossible to move
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down there if he decided to do something reckless, like
go around some traffic at a high rate of speed
or whatever. I don't know that. I have a hard
time blaming him, and I don't think any judge is
driven around downtown Omaha lately would convict him. But I
was in the middle of a statement anyway, so I
made a bad decision. I was driving recklessly. A member
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of the Omaha Police Department pulled me over. We had
legally allowed firearms in the vehicle. The officer wanted to
check make sure. Now he didn't know necessarily who I was.
I didn't have plates on the car, didn't have my
driver's license with me, which is now that someone in
the car said that he didn't have his driver's license,
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But I saw another story that said officers were able
to identify him through his driver's license, So I don't know.
Still a lot of confusion. Anyway, back to Bud Crawford's statement, officers,
out of an abundance of safety, did what they need
to do. They have a very tough job. Every day
they get in the rain against an opponent, and it's
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no different than what I do. But if we all
work together, we'll all remain victorious. Signed Terrence Bud Crawford
something something like that. Now, that's the best thing he
could do, saying something like when I got pulled over
by cops, I obeyed commands, I stayed calm, and everyone
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got out of there, No big deal. I posed for
some pictures with the police, gave him one of those
oh I'm giving you an uppercut pictures, and everyone had
a good laugh and we all got home safe. No
big deal. There's no reason why we can't have a
statement like that. In the absence of that, The second
best thing Bud Crawford can do is not say anything,
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because he's got a number of activists and community alleged
leaders coming out to make a whole bunch of really
dumb statements. What I said was true. Bud Crawford was
driving recklessly. According to Omaha police. Anyone gonna ask Bud
why he thought it was okay to drive like that,
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So they pulled him over. They saw a firearm on
the driver's side floor of the car. Now, I don't
know where you carry your firearms. I don't know if
that's the best place to put it, But I don't know.
I'm going to concede that Bud Crawford's life might be
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a little different than mine. Don't know, gonna concede that
that is a possibility. So he's got his legally allowed firearm.
His security guard's like, I got a gun too. Cops
are like, all right, get out of the car. We
have a car with no plates, brand new car. You
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got the head of security saying Bud Crawford didn't have
his driver's license or proof of registration or insurance. Strike two,
and well, Strike one is driving recklessly. Strike two, no plates,
Strike three, no registration license, Strike four, there's a gun
in the car, and you say I'm allowed to have
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that all right, let's get out of the car and
make sure everyone's doing exactly what they need to do.
Now police have to they pull a firearm. I haven't
seen a video that showed a gun in Bud Crawford's face,
like people have been alleging. I see the officer holding
a flashlight. That's what it looks like to me. You
can't really tell. Haven't seen the police bodycam footage. Haven't
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seen all the stuff that leads up to why the
officer suddenly told the occupants to get out of the car.
I don't know how much negotiating or protesting went on
before it was like, all right, get out of the car.
But what we saw next was Crawford gets out of
the car, showing his hands out of the car, say
I'm not reaching for no gun. Great move. Police are
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telling you what to do. Do it you get out.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
They handcuffed these guys for police security. But they had
to They had had, Yes, they had to have. They
had two cops, four people in the car. One of them,
whether they knew it or not, is a boxing champion.
He could have taken out the whole force by himself
without even breaking a sweat. Yeah, they handcuffed him for
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everyone's own safety. They got all the paperwork all settled,
issued him a citation. He went home. He's in court
in December if it comes to that, which it won't.
To talk about that citation. It won't. So I don't
see where this is a major problem. But here we
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are later in the week and we've still got people.
They had a uh uh, one of these town halls
with Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmater last night, and well,
it was kind of a town hall. It was the
Omaha three sixty meeting. This is a group of community
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leaders and alleged community leaders in northeast Omaha. Chief Smater
is good enough to show up at their meeting on occasion,
talk to the public, answer some questions, and suddenly he
come to people asking about Bud Crawford. You had one
Omaha resident say, I went to the meeting hoping to
hear from the head of police because I want accountability.
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She said, I want real transparency around what occurred and
for action steps moving forward, changes that will happen within
the police department to ensure that this doesn't happen to
someone else, What doesn't happen to someone else that you're
pulled over for reckless driving, there's a firearm visible in
the car, and the police got to find out what's
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going on. When you've got no l's registration or plates?
What is it that you don't want to happen to
someone else? I want transparency here it is. This is
what happened. We have video footage, We have an investigation underway.
We have people who walked away from this because everyone
had cooler heads prevail and nothing bad happened. When you
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say you want accountability, no you don't. I don't know
this woman that said this, I'm not giving her name,
But when a lot of people say I want accountability, no,
what you want is no more cops. You want no cops.
You want someone in your neighborhood victimizing you and your
family and your neighbors and no one to call. Is
that what you want? These guys are the most We
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got some people in this community, the most cop hating people.
Precious McKesson is executive director of the Nebraska Democratic Party,
and she's the one that said I was at that
birthday party too, letting everyone know how cool I am.
I got to go to the Bud Crawford birthday party.
Oh it was a great time. We had cake. Sorry, Lucy,
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you weren't invited. I know, Lucy loves.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I didn't even I stood outside the back door hoping
somebody would bring me a piece of cake.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Nothing, huh, crying shame. You could have gone in there
like in the cake and then popped out.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I would have done it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Happy birthday, mister boxing champion. That would have been great.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You could have done it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
You've got that dress.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Right, Yes, so it's one arm.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Precious McKesson, executive director of the Nebraska Democratic Party. It
is like I was at that party and then she said,
and I quote to the Omaha World Herald, quote, the
occupants in that vehicle were never a threat to them,
talking about the officers, unquote, the occupants in the vehicle
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were never a threat to the Well. Shoot, I don't
even know why the cops bothered. I mean, Precious McKesson
knew it. She knew that the occupants in that vehicle
were not going to be a threat to the officers.
How come the cops didn't know. Aren't the cops supposed
to know? I mean, I know some police officers, and
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I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. When
they're pulling someone over, especially a vehicle that's driving recklessly
with no license plates, and then the driver has got
no identification, what they do is they call Psychic Susanna.
And they say not anymore, they can still call her.
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She's Psychic Susannah. Sadly left us, not just as a
radio station years ago, but our friend Psychic Susannah died
just over a year ago. I still miss her. I'm
going to miss getting text messages from her. On Christmas.
I'd sometimes get a Merry Christmas from Psychic Susannah. Then
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from my family, she's like up early. She might be
Santa Claus. She might be Santa Claus. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You might still get one this year.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Did the guy on the radio say Santa Claus just died? No?
I didn't say. Anyway, they call Psychic Susannah. The police
call Psychic Susannah and say Susannah, and she goes ah.
She had a wonderful, raspy way of speaking. Is this
Psychic Susannah? Hi? And then they say, are the occupants
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of this vehicle I just pulled over going to be
a threat? And then she's able to tell them whether
or not they will. It's clairvoyance, psychic ability, I mean psychic.
Susannah has it, Precious McKesson has it. I don't know
why all the officers don't always have it. How they're
just supposed to know. The occupants in the vehicle driving
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recklessly in the middle of the night, with no tags,
no identification and guns in the car are no threat
to the officers. What is the problem of these cops.
He's reckless cops. You're fluent in sarcasm, right. State Senator
Terrell McKinney. When last we heard from Terrell McKinney, the
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Nebraska legislator was out there actively in the streets flipping
off cops and telling them to go blank themselves, and
getting in the way of officers running towards a gunshot
victim to try and save his life after shots were
fired not by cops but by bad guys in a
community event in northeast Omaha. McKinney State Senator McKinney one
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of the most cop hating this guys, and I thought
maybe he'd be better than his predecessor, Ernie Chambers. He
might be worse. Ernie too lazy to go out there
and actively protest against the cops, flip them off and
get in their way and tell them to go blank
themselves as they're trying to save a guy's life. Ernie
too lazy. Plus he's never been to Northeast Omaha. He
lives in Bellevue. That's what I heard, stay Senator Terree McKinney.
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He said that the traffic stop of Bud Crawford was disappointing.
They shouldn't even why he's the champ, don't they just
know he can just drive however he wants, whenever he wants,
and they're just supposed to know, Well, that's his car,
that's the champ. And then he said, quote, there's documented
history going back before I was born a police not
operating in the best way. Unquote woo, someone got a
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history book. You're telling me there used to be racist
cops doing racist stuffs. Then cops should never pull over
anyone anymore, certainly not a person of color, right blank.
Those cops wait to give him the finger. There's documented
history of you know, if I come up against a
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lizard in the street, there's documented history going back to
before I was born, of those lizards being giant dinosaurs
that would tear me apart. That's why I'm leary of lizards.
That's the website learyolizards dot com. Don't know if that's
a site, don't look at it. I'm not responsible from
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anything on that site. And then Omaha City Council Member
Levin you Goodwin District to Northeast Omaha said pretty much
the same thing that brings back painful memories of black
people's experience with law enforcement. And if she's talking about
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the history of law enforcement in Omaha against black people,
what an offensive statement against black people in historical sense
victimized by law enforcement. There's some ghost of some guy
who was killed by racist cops, whether you're going back
sixty or one hundred years, and he's coming down there.
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You know, he's back. Ooh, Goodwin, thank you for stepping
up for me. What happened? Did they kill him? How
many bullets did they put it in?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Woo?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Oh No, they didn't kill him. They just they handcuffed
him and then they realized everything was fine, they let
him go. Wooo. That's not even close to what happened
to me. Yeah, it's the same thing. Brings back painful
memories of black Omaha's getting black Omaha residents getting pulled
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over for violating the law, getting a citation, and then
being let go. Ah the memories. Wooo good lord. So
this is the latest on Omaha's infamous traffic stop of
this past weekend. We're national news. Jeez oh, none of
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this should have happened. Still waiting for Bud Crawford to
release a statement. And again, Champ, it's there for you.
Whatever I said, some variation of it, it's all yours, Lucy.
We missed you yesterday. Can you tell me about every
single road closure in downtown Omaha. We've got the rest
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of the week.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I could give you most of them, but they do
change frequently, and I can tell you there's a pretty
comprehensive list at KVAB dot com when you go to
our features and you can get the construction and traffic report.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
It just I just got that updated.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, it's I'll tell you all of them. Any any
road that you want to travel downtown Omaha between Chi
House Center and the Ballpark and the Old Market, they're
all closed.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I was trying to be informative here, not you know, sarcastic.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
No, I'll be informative. I had a craving yesterday for
one of my favorite restaurants in Omaha. I wanted Spaghetti Works.
I wanted two trips to the salad bar and two
plates of spaghetti, with an option for a third. I
didn't take the option because I ate all the garlic bread.
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Oh how many people were you with, Scott? Now? That
was just me? Oh oh, So I had a hanker
in for Spaghetti Works. I work here in midtown Omaha, Dundee, USA,
and so I took my usual route. I went down
Cumming Street to tenth and took a right. What a terrible,
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terrible mistake. Spaghetti Works is right there in the heart
of the Old Market. That's just take a right on
Tenth and then take a right on Howard and Spaghetti
Works up there on your left. That should be about
a one to two minute jog. The hardest part is
am I going to find a parking place in the
middle of the afternoon the Old Market? Not impossible? So
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I take a right on tenth. Tenth Street's like, no, no, no, no, no,
this is closed. Wait why it's closed? Oh yeah, tenth
pretty much closed both, I think in both directions. Pretty
much from Capital to Harney all right, I will do
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the super secret I know what I'm doing. Omaha way
kind of going around to the east of there, I
kind of go around the park and Nope, that's all
closed too. Road closure is on Eighth Street as well.
You can't get through any of that stuff. All right,
So now I'm trying to work my way back around.
And now I'm heading back west on I don't know
what street I'm on right now. You can't go west
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on most of this because, like I said, tenth is closed.
So now you're trying to work around this way. I'm like,
all right, I'll go over here on eleventh. Nope, there's
construction on eleventh, just south of Dodge Street. All right, Now,
I'll keep working my way up here. And then you
got the of course one way streets and you can't
go down every I think I had to go all
the way up to because there's road closure on fourteenth
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as you're trying to get to the Old Market. I
think I had to go up to because there's road close.
Then also on sixteenth around like the Orpheum, that's all
closed because we've got sinkholes and all kinds of stuff there.
I think I had to go up to eighteenth and
try and work my way back, and I'm the whole time,
I'm thinking, I'm glad I'm not meeting someone because I'm
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going to be twenty minutes late. And is this what
people is? Is this really what we're doing here? Like, well,
some of it is because of the streetcar construction. Some
of it is the sinkhole or whatever we're doing here,
but a lot of this has to do with streetcar construction.
We've got to do all this, and we do the
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sewer lines, of power lines and all the rest of
this stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Well, new buildings are going in there too.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Some of it, Like yeah, I know are across from
where the old library was, across from the Hollyood Center,
which is going to be the Mutual building that's all
under construction. I got that. I knew about that. But
when all the streets are closed and you can't get anywhere,
I just thought, as I'm laughing maniacally to myself, going
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like like Clark Griswold and European vacation, I can't get
in the left lane. Look kids, big Ben Parliament. I
just kept thinking about people from out of town. Yeah,
we're gonna go to Omaha. We're gonna stay downtown. We're
gonna go to the Zoo. We're gonna see the Old Market. No,
you're not, it's all it's all closed. It's all closed.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Go to the Lincoln Zoo.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yo, ye okay, yeah, great ideas. Go to the Lincoln Zoo.
If you can impress, if you can find a way
to get on the Interstate from all of that, then.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Now you don't want to take theaters.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Now you're on the Interstate, and now you're out past
six eighty up towards Giles, heading westbound. You're stuck there too.
You might as well walk. Yeah, maybe that's why there
I see so many people. I thought these were homeless
people with all kinds of addiction and mental health issues.
They're just staggering or on the streets trying actively trying
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to get hit by cars because none of them are
crossing at the crosswalk. They're just staggering around the streets
with a look on their face. I think I'm totally wrong.
I don't think these are homeless people. I think there's
a people who just abandoned their cars and went Michael
Douglas falling down through the streets with like I've lost it.
I've snapped, and they're just wandering around. They got like
long beards, Like what happened to you? How long you've
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been living on the streets, like forty five minutes. I'm
just and they're just staggering around what they've snapped. They're
aimless and they don't know what to do or where
they're going, and they can't get anywhere. That's what's happening downtown.
It's all closed.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
What do we move out front toost?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Out front? Should have told you there's Lucy with an
eighties movie reference. I should start dinging some of these
movie reference there's a lot of movie references coming at you.
You couldn't even break the scheme with that, Yeah, I can.
It's magn and p I vacation. So it's all closed.
I would not recommend driving anywhere around Omaha. But like
I said, I have a solution to the road construction people.
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Here's my solution. It's real easy. It's kind of like
when you're going into a brothel. It's the same rule,
and that rule is one at a time, one at
a time. I'm looking here at the map of downtown
and I see the little construction things for road closed
and between the River and Eighteenth Street. I count one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen.
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That's just between the River and seventeenth and that little
pocket around the Old Market. What I say, seventeen seventeen
different road construction projects. How about this one at a time.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
They don't have enough people to work on every one
of the projects that are going on right now.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
No, but if they tackle one at a time, that's
one road, that's one road closure one week. They can
bang it out and then move on to the next one.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
That makes way too much sense.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, Like I tell the ladies that line up here
at the studio and I'm walking out at eleven o'clock
after I say Clay and Buck is next, and I
got all these screaming, adoring fans throwing underwear at me.
I'm like, ladies, one at a time, we'll get to
all of you. We can get this all done. But
one at a time, all right, two three at a time, tops,
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But for road construction, one at a time. Talk to
about some traffic stuff. The Bud Crawford traffic stop. All
the construction snarling traffic downtown. This is my favorite traffic
story of the day though, and apparently some some of
you have been asking for this, but I don't think
this is what you expected to have happen. As you know,
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now that we're into October, that means it could snow
at any time, probably not today, tomorrow with a high
of about ninety probably not tomorrow. But I was talking
to someone yesterday said, oh, yeah, this is about a
golf thing. We got this golf thing scheduled here for
a couple of weeks. Now we had to cancel it
last year because we had a foot of snow. Like,
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is that true? Did we have a I don't think
a foot of snow, but we have a bunch of
snow in mid October last year. Maybe I can't remember
what the weather was.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Likely we did in six.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yes, it does snow in October. It wasn't ninety six,
that was ninety.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Why are you always so contradictory.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Well, well, we might have gotten some in No, it's
too late. Ninety seven. Ninety seven was the big October snowstorm.
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I'm writing it down, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah, well, well, well we'll try and remember again here
when the thirtieth anniversary is coming up in the next
couple of years, so it could snow at any time.
We could get ice and snow at any time. Those
of you who live on hills in Omaha, apparently you've
been contacting the city and saying, I can't get up
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or down my street it's so icy. Why don't you
guys come out here and treat the streets. Now the
previous administration, that was Mayor Jeene Stother, she was saying
some old nonsense about how like, well, sometimes we put
that treatment down. We can't get every single side street,
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but we do the best we can to put the
treatment down. But sometimes you get rain that washes away
that briny treatment, and then it starts icing over and
that which would prevent the ice has been washed off
the streets. So you have icy streets. It's mother nature.
It's hard to do. And then the people are like,
I want sand. Well we don't have all that much sand,
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and we can't just stand every single side. I want sand,
I want salt, I want this stuff. So people were
yelling at the form. It was a constant, annual argument
here in Omaha. Well there's a new sheriff in town.
Well it's Aaron Hanson. Still the same share. I mean
there's a new mayor, I should say, and Johnny Wing
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is now in charge. And people got proactive. They started
calling the mayor's office going I don't know if you heard,
but we want sand on these streets. Will you promise
right now that you will give us sand when we
have icy streets on these hills. I slide down the
hill I try and get back home from work is
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up in the afternoon. I can't get up the hill.
We've all seen the videos of vehicles trying to get
up hills on ice sliding backwards. That car was it
a year or two ago that was sliding down some
area near one hundred and thirty second in Blondo and
narrowly missing other vehicles and mailboxes. It was the most
nerve wracking, amazing video I've ever seen. But there was
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one in particular like, oh, he's gonna slide into Oh
he missed it. Now he's going across the street. He's
gonna slide. Oh my gosh, you missed it. It was amazing.
So it's bonkers around here trying to get up and
down these hills. So the residents called the mayor's office
and said we want saying well, the Mayor's office has
heard your complaints and responded. The City of Omaha and
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the parks are not parks, but the public Works Department
have responded. The story here from WAWT six News First
Alert six News. It says, as we stare down a
weekend of days in the nineties, upper eighties, it's hard
to believe winter weather is just around the corner. If
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you live on a hilly ol Maha street, you can
request a barrel of sand.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Does it come with a scoop?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Lucy talking to us from a wind tunnel.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I mean, if it doesn't come with a scoop, what
good is it. You're not gonna be able to turn
it over.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I don't know if it comes with a scoop. You
can request a barrel of sand to help with icy roads.
The city said these are only meant for use on
public roads. You can request you can request a barrel
of sand until December first. After that, I hope that
you've got your barrel of sand. Like but wait December.
Sometimes we don't get any snow before December first. It's
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the next three months we got to worry about. Hey,
get your barrel of sand.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Now, what's the limit? On the grate and.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
You're thinking, like, well, you mean like request like that
when we have icy roads that you come out that
you guys come out with the barrel of sand and
sand road. No, we just give you your street. We
give you people a barrel of sand. Like, wait, we
gotta do it ourselves. Yes, it's part of the new
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Ewing Administrations do it your own damn self program. We
just give you a barrel of sand. It's part of
the Ewing Administrations brand new stop calling us do it
your own darn self program. You get a barrel of sand.
How long is a barrel of say? Because here's what
the problem is gonna be. Someone's like, all right, fine,
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it's fine, I want a barrel of sand, and then
you're gonna get that first forecast of ice. You're like,
I'm not taking any chances, and you're just gonna dump
way too much sand down, like a lot more than
you need. You're gonna deplete your barrel of sand. And
then it's not even gonna it's even so much as sleet.
We're not gonna get anything. It'll be like sunny and
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fifty eight degrees. And you're like, but but they said, yeah,
I know they say that all the time, and nothing happened. Like,
what are you gonna do? Somebody go out there and
sweep up the sand, put it back in the barrel.
That's the other thing. After. Let's say you do get
some ice and your barrel of sand works. The sand
has helped. Well, you only have so much sand. It's
a long winter ahead, and the old Farmer's Almanac says
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it could be a very wet, cold winter. That means
a lot of ice and snow. What happens if you
can you only get one barrel of sand, that might
not even last us till January. You have to go
back out there and sweep up the sand. Use it again.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Can you order too?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I don't know. It doesn't say two. It says you
can request uh a uh barrel of sand?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Does it come with a spreader? Who becomes in a
spreader bucket? You just get it, push it up the street.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, you're gonna have to. What's the setting? You know?
My toro spreader for sand? It keeps clogging this up.
This isn't meant for sand.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
This isn't going to work for anybody.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Is this playground sand? Or is this like you know,
construction grade sand. There's different types of sand.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I think it's pavers sand.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Is it's paver sand? Yeah. Yeah, we're just gonna put
down sand, and ice is gonna go over the sand,
and we're just gonna put down paverstone, some nice tasteful
paverstone over the ice. It'll be pretty Yeah, it'll be great. Yeah,
you can request a pail of sand. Like but wait,
I thought my tax dollars were going towards you guys
doing this. We are doing this. We're bringing you the sand,
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and if if this goes well, next year, we're gonna
bring you a shovel. Hey, who's gonna clear the snow
in front of me? Hey, you didn't request your shovel?
All you go out there with a shovel. All right, fine, fine,
we don't want to be cheap. Here one snow blower
for the entire street. We're gonna give you one snow blower.
Clear your own darn. Scott Fords News Radio eleven ten
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k FAD. There's Lucy Chapman back after a day off
and so happy to be here. Look at the look
on her face. Lucy, hold your face really close to
the microphones. We can see how happy you are to
be here.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I usually do. I'm right up on it.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
What see, Okay, I've got a bunch of great emails here.
Ok some people responding to as soon as I said that,
that's a new policy in City of Omaha. If you
live on a hill and you're concerned that the ice
that forms on the street on that hill will not
cause you to be able to get back up the
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hill after an ice storm slide down the hill into
all of your neighbors down the hill, then you can
request a bucket of sand. And Lucy immediately said, did
they provide a scoop?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Did you find the answer?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
It doesn't sound like you it a scoop, but a
lot of people enjoyed you asking for a scoop. Okay,
here we go. This is the email from Mark. First
of all, he says, this is actually not new. At
my old house. At Mark's old house, I would put
in my request for a sand barrel every September and
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it came in handy every winter. And I did this
about ten years ago. But Lucy, you had to use
your own scoop, and that was a sand and salt mixture.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Oh there's salt in it.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Well, that's what Mark said. That was about ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Oh, there probably isn't now.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
This just says a barrel of sand.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Can I use my kiddy litter scoop?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, I think just a kitty litter scoop. Dave suggested
that you position the barrels along the side of the street.
That way, when you're sliding backwards, you knock into the
barrel and it knocks the sand out in front of you,
and then you get traction.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
That's actually a good plan.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Yeah, Kyle says. We thought our storm drains were messed up.
Now imagine them filled with sand. We'll have sandbars on
Saddle Creek and Fontinel Boulevard. But luckily, says Kyle, I
don't see many people being willing to solve a problem themselves.
Is way easier just just wait on the government to
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do it while you complain.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I just wait for the snow to melt.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah, Lucy, we don't do a lot of traffic reports
throughout the winter. Lucy has to wait until the pass
clears until she can come back to work. But in
the meantime she has a wonderful time throughout the winter
with her six brides and seven.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Brothers eating hard tach right.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
And the weird thing is is you're thinking like, oh,
that sounds like a gay old time. Now it's her brothers.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
So, oh that's terrible. My brothers are both gone. Thanks
for bringing that up.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
You're welcome. Sorry. I was trying to make that jolly
old incest joke, but I swerved into the reality of
let's move on. Let's see here. Yeah, this is the
policy from the city of Omaha. All right, you want
someone to have sand on your icy hill, then we'll
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bring out a barrel of sand, multiple barrels of sand.
Will you put the sand down? No, you guys, I
guess just have a block party with people on your
street and determine who's going to be the one to
put out the sand.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Yeah, do you get to keep it at the end
of the winter and you can build a little uh
maybe you live in a little circle and you get
to you get.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Your own barrel. Now they probably want the barrels back. Yeah,
what out there we had, Well, there'll be bodies in there,
homeless guys will be living.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
In them, cutting out windows.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Scot Scott says, I called and asked to have a
sand barrel set out on a hilly area in our
neighborhood and there's a park on one side and houses
on the other. They wouldn't put it on the park side.
They had to have an actual street like house address,
and I didn't live on that street, so they wouldn't
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authorize it to drop it on someone else's lawn. Well
wait a second, Well then where do you live? Scott
live in the park? I don't know Scott lives at
the park.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
You can live in parks. Now I heard that that's acceptable.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Well, I think what he's saying is maybe he probably
he doesn't live on the hill. He lives like a
lot of people. They'll live up on top of the hill,
but in order to get anywhere they have to go
down and then back up the hill. So if you're
you're in a flat area atop the hill, but you
need the hills to get around, you know, you wouldn't
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necessarily want the barrel in front of your house. You
need to authorize someone who lives down the street and
around the corner, Like, hey, you guys on the that's
at you hadn't thought about that because I actually live
in one of these neighborhoods. You know, I'm kind of
down on the flat area at the bottom of a
hill on my street. But for the people that live
up the street, we have new neighbors up there, well,
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they're not on the hill, they're up on the flat,
so they would need to authorize someone on the hill
to make their lives easier. Like, well, how about you
come down and do it. This is so much buck
passing right now, we have an icy street. What's Public
Work's gonna do about it. We'll bring you a bucket
of sand. You could do it your own, damn self.
Stop calling us, but you're the public works department. Yeah,
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it's time for the public to go to work. Here's
your bucket of sand. Where's our scoop? Ask Lucy, she's
got a bunch of scoops. Now you get the bucket
of sand, You get the scoop. Two scoops, right, and
now you got the neighbors. Just like you're the one
out there doing all the work. There'd be one guy
out there doing all the work, putting sand down all
over the place. Then your neighbors come down off the
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way up on their high hill, you know, up there
on the flat area on top of that mountain, and
they give a little dude, do give you a little waves. Well, hey,
thanks for the sand. They don't have to do anything.
They didn't request the sand, they didn't spread the sand.
They just enjoy the benefits of the sand. They're building
sand castles, which.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Leads me to believe they might be trying to tell
us something. What's that they're not going to work too
hard to get the hills cleaned.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Well, they never happen, they don't. Yeah, the hills are
generally in neighborhoods and they can't clear every single street.
Of course, this is news to people who've lived here
their entire lives. Every winter. Yes, I'm wondering why the
snow part I wasn't coming down my street yet. It
just snowed an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
You know, young people can complain to you a.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Person that's a college aged male of Mongolian descent, Ladies,
are my impressions not good enough for you?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
That was good for an old lady.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
But listen to it now, as a college age male
of Mongolian's descent.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
I want.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
See it works now, doesn't There? You go, that's a
regular Genghis Khan right there. Chuck says. Sand also has
moisture in it. What it does? Well, I cannot between
the sand.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
But sand in each little pebble.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
No, but not. I don't think it's a grain. That's
what it is. Not a pebble.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Depends on what kind of sand it is.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
It's pebbles, if it's street sand, it's grains, if it's
for the playground.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Don't say pebbles. You're going to depress the former head
of the Nebraska Liquor Commission. He hasn't been with pebbles
now for a couple of weeks since all this blew up,
and he won't and he misses her grainy sand. Does
it has moisture within the sand, And it says it happens
when the temperature gets below freezing for several days and
you go in there to spread the sand and it
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just chips your scoop because it's just a solid block
of icy sand.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Gotta get a better scoop.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Hey, this bucket of sand won't fit in my microwave.
Someone will be out there with a blowtorch trying to
thaw out, kind of thrust out the barrel of sands.
Someone else comes out and says, hey, if you have
a blowtorch, why don't you just do the street Oh
and thought about that step. I could eliminate the middleman
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here of the sand and just put it down on
the streets. But I can't wait for this winter. City
of Omaha is like, what else can we have the
people do that we used to do that we don't
want to do anymore. I'll tell you what I could do.
I could probably do all the construction in downtown Omaha
a lot faster than you guys.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
Are changing street light light bulbs.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Put me in charge, Scott, What would you do about
all this construction on Tenth Street where people can't get
in and out of the Old Market or c Chi.
We got a bunch of concerts and fun stuff going on.
People can't drive anywhere down here. What would you do
about this issue where we're tearing up the streets to
put down street car rails? I said, Oh, well, what
I would do is not put down street car rails.
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So let me know if I can.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Help That ship has sailed.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Let me know if I can help you out with
anything else. Well, how about this? Then then dig out
the trench that they've already done, and now we can
have a waterway and we can actually have ships sailing
on it. Wouldn't that be.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Fun instead of trains?
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Yeah, it'd be like venice.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Yeah, that is a great idea.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Do I hear a siren going off or what's going on?
Speaker 2 (42:38):
It would be a drill. I know you're not a
manly man. You probably wouldn't know what that sound is.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Your wife, boy, you know what, I missed you yesterday
with both of these fingers. I missed you yesterday. Yeah,
I don't what is that? Oh? That would be men working.
That's why, Scott, you don't know what the sound of
that is? You know what, Chapman. Yeah, we're gonna fight,
come on, put him up.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
It has to be for charity, and it has to
be in front of people in the ring.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Lucy just gloves.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Yeah, you pick the charity. I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Lucy's gonna whip me in the ring. Then she's gonna
have a parade in her honor, and then she's gonna
get arrested by the cops. This is the timeline.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Somebody put this together. We could do this. We can
make this happen. Do you know I could hit something?
Speaker 1 (43:28):
You can hit me if you want, I'll let you
punch me in the gut. On Facebook Live. Okay, that's
how Houdini died. You know, yeah, I know. Do you
know what my punk son said about me the other day? No,
fifteen year old sophomore in high school. He loves playing
basketball and he goes up and he plays with guys
every Saturday. And this past Saturday, as I have said before,
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and I'm I'm kind of serious when I say this.
I said, if you guys need another guy to run fives,
call me. And I always say that. He's like, okay, Dad,
you know, I'm like, no, no, I'd do it. I mean,
I might not be the best player out there, but
I'm another body. And so I was always kind of
hoping that he would text me and go, hey, if
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you're serious, we only have nine guys. We want to
go five on five. How fast can you get here.
I'm like, I'm on my way. I get my old
Charles Barkley shoes from nineteen ninety three, and I'd head
there and uh, but he's never called me, he's never
texted me. But this last Saturday, I said, how to go?
He said, good, we didn't have enough guys. So you
know my buddy's dad. Oh no, I was in the area,
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and he jumped in and played with us, and I said,
I said you had wait, you had a dad out
there plan And my son immediately recognized like I wanted
to play. He's like, oh no, but he actually knows
what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
I looked at him like and he's like, oh, I mean,
I mean he's I was like, okay, I see how
this is.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
Oh that's terrible. That's a terrible story.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
I know, been bugging me all week.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
I can make you laugh real quick.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
I've just been over here decomposing all week.
Speaker 3 (45:08):
Uh, please getting just real quick. Right back to the
punching you.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Yes, if we you did make me laugh.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
If we get if we get into a ring and
you start punching me, if you punch me in the gut,
then my muffin top will be a blueberry muffin tup.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
A black and blueberry muffin. That. Uh, that does make me.
It also makes me sad.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Which part have a muffin? No, your son just totally distant.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
It makes me sad that I don't actually get to
punch you because I would never hit a lady.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
I'm no lady who said up.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Scott Boyes News Radio eleven ten kfab
Scott Goes. It is Talktober the second and we're so
glad you're with us this and every month of the year.
But this is our favorite love Talktober. Lucy Chapman is
over there, and I suspect because I said at the
start of the program here i'd be talking about traffic issues. Now,
traffic issues have to do with a lot of different things,
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not just all the tie ups, closures, construction and accidents
and all the rest of that stuff, though there will
be some of that in this little diatribe, but I
want to start here with a traffic stop because more
people are speaking out about this, and the one person
I've been checking every day to see if we're going
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to hear from has not said anything, which is not
the worst thing in the world. Now, I wrote his
statement the other day for him. I said it right
here on the air and said, Terrence Bud Crawford, here's
your statement, And it was something along the lines of
I take responsibility for my actions that caused police to
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pull me over. The other night. We had a great
day in my hometown of Omaha after winning yet another
championship belt in the world of boxing. I'm running out
of room here for all my belts. We come back
to Omaha, have a parade, and not just my honor,
but our honor. We do this together. That's why I
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carry Omaha and Nebraska with me everywhere I go. Had
my birthday party at the Steelhouse. What a great venue,
so many friends were there, was so much fun. And
then I made a poor decision with all the traffic
snarls around town. And I don't know that this is
the reason, but after driving around downtown yesterday, I don't
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blame Bud Crawford. If he went up on the sidewalk.
That is the stupidest place to drive on the whole planet.
I would rather drive across the surface of the moon
than across down town. Right now, there are fewer craters
with construction barrels and barricades around them. So I'm I
don't know what he did to kind of drive around
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the traffic that was snarled between his birthday party and
people getting out of the Keith Urban Concert, which they said, well,
Keith Urban cut. Yeah, but the Keith Urban Concert didn't
get out at one o'clock in the morning, so don't
tell me. Well, he couldn't driven that fast. There was
all that traffic down there. We had Bud Crawford's birthday party,
invite only the Keith Urban concert that got done at
(02:34):
like ten thirty, and then they said, well there was
also Boomstock at the gene Leshee mal oh, yeah, did
that go until one thirty in the morning. Don't give
me that Bud Crawford couldn't have been driving that fast.
There was all that traffic from all these events one
to thirty in the morning. Anyway, even if it was
just him driving downtown by himself, it's impossible to move
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down there if he decided to do something reckless, like
go around some traffic at a high rate of speed
or whatever. I don't know that. I have a hard
time blaming him, and I don't think any judge is
driven around downtown Omaha lately would convict him. But I
was in the middle of a statement anyway, so I
made a bad decision. I was driving recklessly. A member
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of the Omaha Police Department pulled me over. We had
legally allowed firearms in the vehicle. The officer wanted to
check make sure. Now he didn't know necessarily who I was.
I didn't have plates on the car, didn't have my
driver's license with me, which is now that someone in
the car said that he didn't have his driver's license,
(03:39):
But I saw another story that said officers were able
to identify him through his driver's license, So I don't know.
Still a lot of confusion. Anyway, back to Bud Crawford's statement, officers,
out of an abundance of safety, did what they need
to do. They have a very tough job. Every day
they get in the rain against an opponent, and it's
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no different than what I do. But if we all
work together, we'll all remain victorious. Signed Terrence Bud Crawford
something something like that. Now, that's the best thing he
could do, saying something like when I got pulled over
by cops, I obeyed commands, I stayed calm, and everyone
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got out of there, No big deal. I posed for
some pictures with the police, gave him one of those
oh I'm giving you an uppercut pictures, and everyone had
a good laugh and we all got home safe. No
big deal. There's no reason why we can't have a
statement like that. In the absence of that, The second
best thing Bud Crawford can do is not say anything,
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because he's got a number of activists and community alleged
leaders coming out to make a whole bunch of really
dumb statements. What I said was true. Bud Crawford was
driving recklessly. According to Omaha police. Anyone gonna ask Bud
why he thought it was okay to drive like that,
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So they pulled him over. They saw a firearm on
the driver's side floor of the car. Now, I don't
know where you carry your firearms. I don't know if
that's the best place to put it, But I don't know.
I'm going to concede that Bud Crawford's life might be
(05:30):
a little different than mine. Don't know, gonna concede that
that is a possibility. So he's got his legally allowed firearm.
His security guard's like, I got a gun too. Cops
are like, all right, get out of the car. We
have a car with no plates, brand new car. You
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got the head of security saying Bud Crawford didn't have
his driver's license or proof of registration or insurance. Strike two,
and well, Strike one is driving recklessly. Strike two, no plates,
Strike three, no registration license, Strike four, there's a gun
in the car, and you say I'm allowed to have
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that all right, let's get out of the car and
make sure everyone's doing exactly what they need to do.
Now police have to they pull a firearm. I haven't
seen a video that showed a gun in Bud Crawford's face,
like people have been alleging. I see the officer holding
a flashlight. That's what it looks like to me. You
can't really tell. Haven't seen the police bodycam footage. Haven't
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seen all the stuff that leads up to why the
officer suddenly told the occupants to get out of the car.
I don't know how much negotiating or protesting went on
before it was like, all right, get out of the car.
But what we saw next was Crawford gets out of
the car, showing his hands out of the car, say
I'm not reaching for no gun. Great move. Police are
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telling you what to do. Do it you get out.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
They handcuffed these guys for police security. But they had
to They had had, Yes, they had to have. They
had two cops, four people in the car. One of them,
whether they knew it or not, is a boxing champion.
He could have taken out the whole force by himself
without even breaking a sweat. Yeah, they handcuffed him for
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everyone's own safety. They got all the paperwork all settled,
issued him a citation. He went home. He's in court
in December if it comes to that, which it won't.
To talk about that citation. It won't. So I don't
see where this is a major problem. But here we
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are later in the week and we've still got people.
They had a uh uh, one of these town halls
with Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmater last night, and well,
it was kind of a town hall. It was the
Omaha three sixty meeting. This is a group of community
(08:13):
leaders and alleged community leaders in northeast Omaha. Chief Smater
is good enough to show up at their meeting on occasion,
talk to the public, answer some questions, and suddenly he
come to people asking about Bud Crawford. You had one
Omaha resident say, I went to the meeting hoping to
hear from the head of police because I want accountability.
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She said, I want real transparency around what occurred and
for action steps moving forward, changes that will happen within
the police department to ensure that this doesn't happen to
someone else, What doesn't happen to someone else that you're
pulled over for reckless driving, there's a firearm visible in
the car, and the police got to find out what's
(08:58):
going on. When you've got no l's registration or plates?
What is it that you don't want to happen to
someone else? I want transparency here it is. This is
what happened. We have video footage, We have an investigation underway.
We have people who walked away from this because everyone
had cooler heads prevail and nothing bad happened. When you
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say you want accountability, no you don't. I don't know
this woman that said this, I'm not giving her name,
But when a lot of people say I want accountability, no,
what you want is no more cops. You want no cops.
You want someone in your neighborhood victimizing you and your
family and your neighbors and no one to call. Is
that what you want? These guys are the most We
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got some people in this community, the most cop hating people.
Precious McKesson is executive director of the Nebraska Democratic Party,
and she's the one that said I was at that
birthday party too, letting everyone know how cool I am.
I got to go to the Bud Crawford birthday party.
Oh it was a great time. We had cake. Sorry, Lucy,
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you weren't invited. I know, Lucy loves.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I didn't even I stood outside the back door hoping
somebody would bring me a piece of cake.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Nothing, huh, crying shame. You could have gone in there
like in the cake and then popped out.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I would have done it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Happy birthday, mister boxing champion. That would have been great.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You could have done it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
You've got that dress.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Right, Yes, so it's one arm.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Precious McKesson, executive director of the Nebraska Democratic Party. It
is like I was at that party and then she said,
and I quote to the Omaha World Herald, quote, the
occupants in that vehicle were never a threat to them,
talking about the officers, unquote, the occupants in the vehicle
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were never a threat to the Well. Shoot, I don't
even know why the cops bothered. I mean, Precious McKesson
knew it. She knew that the occupants in that vehicle
were not going to be a threat to the officers.
How come the cops didn't know. Aren't the cops supposed
to know? I mean, I know some police officers, and
(11:23):
I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. When
they're pulling someone over, especially a vehicle that's driving recklessly
with no license plates, and then the driver has got
no identification, what they do is they call Psychic Susanna.
And they say not anymore, they can still call her.
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She's Psychic Susannah. Sadly left us, not just as a
radio station years ago, but our friend Psychic Susannah died
just over a year ago. I still miss her. I'm
going to miss getting text messages from her. On Christmas.
I'd sometimes get a Merry Christmas from Psychic Susannah. Then
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from my family, she's like up early. She might be
Santa Claus. She might be Santa Claus. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You might still get one this year.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Did the guy on the radio say Santa Claus just died? No?
I didn't say. Anyway, they call Psychic Susannah. The police
call Psychic Susannah and say Susannah, and she goes ah.
She had a wonderful, raspy way of speaking. Is this
Psychic Susannah? Hi? And then they say, are the occupants
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of this vehicle I just pulled over going to be
a threat? And then she's able to tell them whether
or not they will. It's clairvoyance, psychic ability, I mean psychic.
Susannah has it, Precious McKesson has it. I don't know
why all the officers don't always have it. How they're
just supposed to know. The occupants in the vehicle driving
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recklessly in the middle of the night, with no tags,
no identification and guns in the car are no threat
to the officers. What is the problem of these cops.
He's reckless cops. You're fluent in sarcasm, right. State Senator
Terrell McKinney. When last we heard from Terrell McKinney, the
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Nebraska legislator was out there actively in the streets flipping
off cops and telling them to go blank themselves, and
getting in the way of officers running towards a gunshot
victim to try and save his life after shots were
fired not by cops but by bad guys in a
community event in northeast Omaha. McKinney State Senator McKinney one
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of the most cop hating this guys, and I thought
maybe he'd be better than his predecessor, Ernie Chambers. He
might be worse. Ernie too lazy to go out there
and actively protest against the cops, flip them off and
get in their way and tell them to go blank
themselves as they're trying to save a guy's life. Ernie
too lazy. Plus he's never been to Northeast Omaha. He
lives in Bellevue. That's what I heard, stay Senator Terree McKinney.
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He said that the traffic stop of Bud Crawford was disappointing.
They shouldn't even why he's the champ, don't they just
know he can just drive however he wants, whenever he wants,
and they're just supposed to know, Well, that's his car,
that's the champ. And then he said, quote, there's documented
history going back before I was born a police not
operating in the best way. Unquote woo, someone got a
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history book. You're telling me there used to be racist
cops doing racist stuffs. Then cops should never pull over
anyone anymore, certainly not a person of color, right blank.
Those cops wait to give him the finger. There's documented
history of you know, if I come up against a
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lizard in the street, there's documented history going back to
before I was born, of those lizards being giant dinosaurs
that would tear me apart. That's why I'm leary of lizards.
That's the website learyolizards dot com. Don't know if that's
a site, don't look at it. I'm not responsible from
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anything on that site. And then Omaha City Council Member
Levin you Goodwin District to Northeast Omaha said pretty much
the same thing that brings back painful memories of black
people's experience with law enforcement. And if she's talking about
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the history of law enforcement in Omaha against black people,
what an offensive statement against black people in historical sense
victimized by law enforcement. There's some ghost of some guy
who was killed by racist cops, whether you're going back
sixty or one hundred years, and he's coming down there.
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You know, he's back. Ooh, Goodwin, thank you for stepping
up for me. What happened? Did they kill him? How
many bullets did they put it in?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Woo?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Oh No, they didn't kill him. They just they handcuffed
him and then they realized everything was fine, they let
him go. Wooo. That's not even close to what happened
to me. Yeah, it's the same thing. Brings back painful
memories of black Omaha's getting black Omaha residents getting pulled
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over for violating the law, getting a citation, and then
being let go. Ah the memories. Wooo good lord. So
this is the latest on Omaha's infamous traffic stop of
this past weekend. We're national news. Jeez oh, none of
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this should have happened. Still waiting for Bud Crawford to
release a statement. And again, Champ, it's there for you.
Whatever I said, some variation of it, it's all yours, Lucy.
We missed you yesterday. Can you tell me about every
single road closure in downtown Omaha. We've got the rest
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of the week.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I could give you most of them, but they do
change frequently, and I can tell you there's a pretty
comprehensive list at KVAB dot com when you go to
our features and you can get the construction and traffic report.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
It just I just got that updated.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, it's I'll tell you all of them. Any any
road that you want to travel downtown Omaha between Chi
House Center and the Ballpark and the Old Market, they're
all closed.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I was trying to be informative here, not you know, sarcastic.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
No, I'll be informative. I had a craving yesterday for
one of my favorite restaurants in Omaha. I wanted Spaghetti Works.
I wanted two trips to the salad bar and two
plates of spaghetti, with an option for a third. I
didn't take the option because I ate all the garlic bread.
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Oh how many people were you with, Scott? Now? That
was just me? Oh oh, So I had a hanker
in for Spaghetti Works. I work here in midtown Omaha, Dundee, USA,
and so I took my usual route. I went down
Cumming Street to tenth and took a right. What a terrible,
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terrible mistake. Spaghetti Works is right there in the heart
of the Old Market. That's just take a right on
Tenth and then take a right on Howard and Spaghetti
Works up there on your left. That should be about
a one to two minute jog. The hardest part is
am I going to find a parking place in the
middle of the afternoon the Old Market? Not impossible? So
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I take a right on tenth. Tenth Street's like, no, no, no, no, no,
this is closed. Wait why it's closed? Oh yeah, tenth
pretty much closed both, I think in both directions. Pretty
much from Capital to Harney all right, I will do
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the super secret I know what I'm doing. Omaha way
kind of going around to the east of there, I
kind of go around the park and Nope, that's all
closed too. Road closure is on Eighth Street as well.
You can't get through any of that stuff. All right,
So now I'm trying to work my way back around.
And now I'm heading back west on I don't know
what street I'm on right now. You can't go west
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on most of this because, like I said, tenth is closed.
So now you're trying to work around this way. I'm like,
all right, I'll go over here on eleventh. Nope, there's
construction on eleventh, just south of Dodge Street. All right, Now,
I'll keep working my way up here. And then you
got the of course one way streets and you can't
go down every I think I had to go all
the way up to because there's road closure on fourteenth
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as you're trying to get to the Old Market. I
think I had to go up to because there's road close.
Then also on sixteenth around like the Orpheum, that's all
closed because we've got sinkholes and all kinds of stuff there.
I think I had to go up to eighteenth and
try and work my way back, and I'm the whole time,
I'm thinking, I'm glad I'm not meeting someone because I'm
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going to be twenty minutes late. And is this what
people is? Is this really what we're doing here? Like, well,
some of it is because of the streetcar construction. Some
of it is the sinkhole or whatever we're doing here,
but a lot of this has to do with streetcar construction.
We've got to do all this, and we do the
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sewer lines, of power lines and all the rest of
this stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Well, new buildings are going in there too.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Some of it, Like yeah, I know are across from
where the old library was, across from the Hollyood Center,
which is going to be the Mutual building that's all
under construction. I got that. I knew about that. But
when all the streets are closed and you can't get anywhere,
I just thought, as I'm laughing maniacally to myself, going
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like like Clark Griswold and European vacation, I can't get
in the left lane. Look kids, big Ben Parliament. I
just kept thinking about people from out of town. Yeah,
we're gonna go to Omaha. We're gonna stay downtown. We're
gonna go to the Zoo. We're gonna see the Old Market. No,
you're not, it's all it's all closed. It's all closed.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Go to the Lincoln Zoo.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yo, ye okay, yeah, great ideas. Go to the Lincoln Zoo.
If you can impress, if you can find a way
to get on the Interstate from all of that, then.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Now you don't want to take theaters.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Now you're on the Interstate, and now you're out past
six eighty up towards Giles, heading westbound. You're stuck there too.
You might as well walk. Yeah, maybe that's why there
I see so many people. I thought these were homeless
people with all kinds of addiction and mental health issues.
They're just staggering or on the streets trying actively trying
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to get hit by cars because none of them are
crossing at the crosswalk. They're just staggering around the streets
with a look on their face. I think I'm totally wrong.
I don't think these are homeless people. I think there's
a people who just abandoned their cars and went Michael
Douglas falling down through the streets with like I've lost it.
I've snapped, and they're just wandering around. They got like
long beards, Like what happened to you? How long you've
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been living on the streets, like forty five minutes. I'm
just and they're just staggering around what they've snapped. They're
aimless and they don't know what to do or where
they're going, and they can't get anywhere. That's what's happening downtown.
It's all closed.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
What do we move out front toost?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Out front? Should have told you there's Lucy with an
eighties movie reference. I should start dinging some of these
movie reference there's a lot of movie references coming at you.
You couldn't even break the scheme with that, Yeah, I can.
It's magn and p I vacation. So it's all closed.
I would not recommend driving anywhere around Omaha. But like
I said, I have a solution to the road construction people.
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Here's my solution. It's real easy. It's kind of like
when you're going into a brothel. It's the same rule,
and that rule is one at a time, one at
a time. I'm looking here at the map of downtown
and I see the little construction things for road closed
and between the River and Eighteenth Street. I count one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen.
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That's just between the River and seventeenth and that little
pocket around the Old Market. What I say, seventeen seventeen
different road construction projects. How about this one at a time.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
They don't have enough people to work on every one
of the projects that are going on right now.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
No, but if they tackle one at a time, that's
one road, that's one road closure one week. They can
bang it out and then move on to the next one.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
That makes way too much sense.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, Like I tell the ladies that line up here
at the studio and I'm walking out at eleven o'clock
after I say Clay and Buck is next, and I
got all these screaming, adoring fans throwing underwear at me.
I'm like, ladies, one at a time, we'll get to
all of you. We can get this all done. But
one at a time, all right, two three at a time, tops,
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But for road construction, one at a time. Talk to
about some traffic stuff. The Bud Crawford traffic stop. All
the construction snarling traffic downtown. This is my favorite traffic
story of the day though, and apparently some some of
you have been asking for this, but I don't think
this is what you expected to have happen. As you know,
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now that we're into October, that means it could snow
at any time, probably not today, tomorrow with a high
of about ninety probably not tomorrow. But I was talking
to someone yesterday said, oh, yeah, this is about a
golf thing. We got this golf thing scheduled here for
a couple of weeks. Now we had to cancel it
last year because we had a foot of snow. Like,
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is that true? Did we have a I don't think
a foot of snow, but we have a bunch of
snow in mid October last year. Maybe I can't remember
what the weather was.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Likely we did in six.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yes, it does snow in October. It wasn't ninety six,
that was ninety.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Why are you always so contradictory.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Well, well, we might have gotten some in No, it's
too late. Ninety seven. Ninety seven was the big October snowstorm.
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I'm writing it down, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah, well, well, well we'll try and remember again here
when the thirtieth anniversary is coming up in the next
couple of years, so it could snow at any time.
We could get ice and snow at any time. Those
of you who live on hills in Omaha, apparently you've
been contacting the city and saying, I can't get up
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or down my street it's so icy. Why don't you
guys come out here and treat the streets. Now the
previous administration, that was Mayor Jeene Stother, she was saying
some old nonsense about how like, well, sometimes we put
that treatment down. We can't get every single side street,
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but we do the best we can to put the
treatment down. But sometimes you get rain that washes away
that briny treatment, and then it starts icing over and
that which would prevent the ice has been washed off
the streets. So you have icy streets. It's mother nature.
It's hard to do. And then the people are like,
I want sand. Well we don't have all that much sand,
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and we can't just stand every single side. I want sand,
I want salt, I want this stuff. So people were
yelling at the form. It was a constant, annual argument
here in Omaha. Well there's a new sheriff in town.
Well it's Aaron Hanson. Still the same share. I mean
there's a new mayor, I should say, and Johnny Wing
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is now in charge. And people got proactive. They started
calling the mayor's office going I don't know if you heard,
but we want sand on these streets. Will you promise
right now that you will give us sand when we
have icy streets on these hills. I slide down the
hill I try and get back home from work is
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up in the afternoon. I can't get up the hill.
We've all seen the videos of vehicles trying to get
up hills on ice sliding backwards. That car was it
a year or two ago that was sliding down some
area near one hundred and thirty second in Blondo and
narrowly missing other vehicles and mailboxes. It was the most
nerve wracking, amazing video I've ever seen. But there was
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one in particular like, oh, he's gonna slide into Oh
he missed it. Now he's going across the street. He's
gonna slide. Oh my gosh, you missed it. It was amazing.
So it's bonkers around here trying to get up and
down these hills. So the residents called the mayor's office
and said we want saying well, the Mayor's office has
heard your complaints and responded. The City of Omaha and
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the parks are not parks, but the public Works Department
have responded. The story here from WAWT six News First
Alert six News. It says, as we stare down a
weekend of days in the nineties, upper eighties, it's hard
to believe winter weather is just around the corner. If
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you live on a hilly ol Maha street, you can
request a barrel of sand.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Does it come with a scoop?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Lucy talking to us from a wind tunnel.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I mean, if it doesn't come with a scoop, what
good is it. You're not gonna be able to turn
it over.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I don't know if it comes with a scoop. You
can request a barrel of sand to help with icy roads.
The city said these are only meant for use on
public roads. You can request you can request a barrel
of sand until December first. After that, I hope that
you've got your barrel of sand. Like but wait December.
Sometimes we don't get any snow before December first. It's
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the next three months we got to worry about. Hey,
get your barrel of sand.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Now, what's the limit? On the grate and.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
You're thinking, like, well, you mean like request like that
when we have icy roads that you come out that
you guys come out with the barrel of sand and
sand road. No, we just give you your street. We
give you people a barrel of sand. Like, wait, we
gotta do it ourselves. Yes, it's part of the new
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Ewing Administrations do it your own damn self program. We
just give you a barrel of sand. It's part of
the Ewing Administrations brand new stop calling us do it
your own darn self program. You get a barrel of sand.
How long is a barrel of say? Because here's what
the problem is gonna be. Someone's like, all right, fine,
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it's fine, I want a barrel of sand, and then
you're gonna get that first forecast of ice. You're like,
I'm not taking any chances, and you're just gonna dump
way too much sand down, like a lot more than
you need. You're gonna deplete your barrel of sand. And
then it's not even gonna it's even so much as sleet.
We're not gonna get anything. It'll be like sunny and
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fifty eight degrees. And you're like, but but they said, yeah,
I know they say that all the time, and nothing happened. Like,
what are you gonna do? Somebody go out there and
sweep up the sand, put it back in the barrel.
That's the other thing. After. Let's say you do get
some ice and your barrel of sand works. The sand
has helped. Well, you only have so much sand. It's
a long winter ahead, and the old Farmer's Almanac says
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it could be a very wet, cold winter. That means
a lot of ice and snow. What happens if you
can you only get one barrel of sand, that might
not even last us till January. You have to go
back out there and sweep up the sand. Use it again.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Can you order too?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I don't know. It doesn't say two. It says you
can request uh a uh barrel of sand?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Does it come with a spreader? Who becomes in a
spreader bucket? You just get it, push it up the street.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, you're gonna have to. What's the setting? You know?
My toro spreader for sand? It keeps clogging this up.
This isn't meant for sand.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
This isn't going to work for anybody.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Is this playground sand? Or is this like you know,
construction grade sand. There's different types of sand.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I think it's pavers sand.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Is it's paver sand? Yeah. Yeah, we're just gonna put
down sand, and ice is gonna go over the sand,
and we're just gonna put down paverstone, some nice tasteful
paverstone over the ice. It'll be pretty Yeah, it'll be great. Yeah,
you can request a pail of sand. Like but wait,
I thought my tax dollars were going towards you guys
doing this. We are doing this. We're bringing you the sand,
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and if if this goes well, next year, we're gonna
bring you a shovel. Hey, who's gonna clear the snow
in front of me? Hey, you didn't request your shovel?
All you go out there with a shovel. All right, fine, fine,
we don't want to be cheap. Here one snow blower
for the entire street. We're gonna give you one snow blower.
Clear your own darn. Scott Fords News Radio eleven ten
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k FAD. There's Lucy Chapman back after a day off
and so happy to be here. Look at the look
on her face. Lucy, hold your face really close to
the microphones. We can see how happy you are to
be here.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I usually do. I'm right up on it.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
What see, Okay, I've got a bunch of great emails here.
Ok some people responding to as soon as I said that,
that's a new policy in City of Omaha. If you
live on a hill and you're concerned that the ice
that forms on the street on that hill will not
cause you to be able to get back up the
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hill after an ice storm slide down the hill into
all of your neighbors down the hill, then you can
request a bucket of sand. And Lucy immediately said, did
they provide a scoop?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Did you find the answer?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
It doesn't sound like you it a scoop, but a
lot of people enjoyed you asking for a scoop. Okay,
here we go. This is the email from Mark. First
of all, he says, this is actually not new. At
my old house. At Mark's old house, I would put
in my request for a sand barrel every September and
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it came in handy every winter. And I did this
about ten years ago. But Lucy, you had to use
your own scoop, and that was a sand and salt mixture.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Oh there's salt in it.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Well, that's what Mark said. That was about ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Oh, there probably isn't now.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
This just says a barrel of sand.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Can I use my kiddy litter scoop?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, I think just a kitty litter scoop. Dave suggested
that you position the barrels along the side of the street.
That way, when you're sliding backwards, you knock into the
barrel and it knocks the sand out in front of you,
and then you get traction.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
That's actually a good plan.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Yeah, Kyle says. We thought our storm drains were messed up.
Now imagine them filled with sand. We'll have sandbars on
Saddle Creek and Fontinel Boulevard. But luckily, says Kyle, I
don't see many people being willing to solve a problem themselves.
Is way easier just just wait on the government to
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do it while you complain.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I just wait for the snow to melt.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah, Lucy, we don't do a lot of traffic reports
throughout the winter. Lucy has to wait until the pass
clears until she can come back to work. But in
the meantime she has a wonderful time throughout the winter
with her six brides and seven.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Brothers eating hard tach right.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
And the weird thing is is you're thinking like, oh,
that sounds like a gay old time. Now it's her brothers.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
So, oh that's terrible. My brothers are both gone. Thanks
for bringing that up.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
You're welcome. Sorry. I was trying to make that jolly
old incest joke, but I swerved into the reality of
let's move on. Let's see here. Yeah, this is the
policy from the city of Omaha. All right, you want
someone to have sand on your icy hill, then we'll
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bring out a barrel of sand, multiple barrels of sand.
Will you put the sand down? No, you guys, I
guess just have a block party with people on your
street and determine who's going to be the one to
put out the sand.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Yeah, do you get to keep it at the end
of the winter and you can build a little uh
maybe you live in a little circle and you get
to you get.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Your own barrel. Now they probably want the barrels back. Yeah,
what out there we had, Well, there'll be bodies in there,
homeless guys will be living.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
In them, cutting out windows.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Scot Scott says, I called and asked to have a
sand barrel set out on a hilly area in our
neighborhood and there's a park on one side and houses
on the other. They wouldn't put it on the park side.
They had to have an actual street like house address,
and I didn't live on that street, so they wouldn't
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authorize it to drop it on someone else's lawn. Well
wait a second, Well then where do you live? Scott
live in the park? I don't know Scott lives at
the park.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
You can live in parks. Now I heard that that's acceptable.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Well, I think what he's saying is maybe he probably
he doesn't live on the hill. He lives like a
lot of people. They'll live up on top of the hill,
but in order to get anywhere they have to go
down and then back up the hill. So if you're
you're in a flat area atop the hill, but you
need the hills to get around, you know, you wouldn't
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necessarily want the barrel in front of your house. You
need to authorize someone who lives down the street and
around the corner, Like, hey, you guys on the that's
at you hadn't thought about that because I actually live
in one of these neighborhoods. You know, I'm kind of
down on the flat area at the bottom of a
hill on my street. But for the people that live
up the street, we have new neighbors up there, well,
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they're not on the hill, they're up on the flat,
so they would need to authorize someone on the hill
to make their lives easier. Like, well, how about you
come down and do it. This is so much buck
passing right now, we have an icy street. What's Public
Work's gonna do about it. We'll bring you a bucket
of sand. You could do it your own, damn self.
Stop calling us, but you're the public works department. Yeah,
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it's time for the public to go to work. Here's
your bucket of sand. Where's our scoop? Ask Lucy, she's
got a bunch of scoops. Now you get the bucket
of sand, You get the scoop. Two scoops, right, and
now you got the neighbors. Just like you're the one
out there doing all the work. There'd be one guy
out there doing all the work, putting sand down all
over the place. Then your neighbors come down off the
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way up on their high hill, you know, up there
on the flat area on top of that mountain, and
they give a little dude, do give you a little waves. Well, hey,
thanks for the sand. They don't have to do anything.
They didn't request the sand, they didn't spread the sand.
They just enjoy the benefits of the sand. They're building
sand castles, which.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Leads me to believe they might be trying to tell
us something. What's that they're not going to work too
hard to get the hills cleaned.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Well, they never happen, they don't. Yeah, the hills are
generally in neighborhoods and they can't clear every single street.
Of course, this is news to people who've lived here
their entire lives. Every winter. Yes, I'm wondering why the
snow part I wasn't coming down my street yet. It
just snowed an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
You know, young people can complain to you a.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Person that's a college aged male of Mongolian descent, Ladies,
are my impressions not good enough for you?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
That was good for an old lady.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
But listen to it now, as a college age male
of Mongolian's descent.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
I want.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
See it works now, doesn't There? You go, that's a
regular Genghis Khan right there. Chuck says. Sand also has
moisture in it. What it does? Well, I cannot between
the sand.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
But sand in each little pebble.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
No, but not. I don't think it's a grain. That's
what it is. Not a pebble.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Depends on what kind of sand it is.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
It's pebbles, if it's street sand, it's grains, if it's
for the playground.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Don't say pebbles. You're going to depress the former head
of the Nebraska Liquor Commission. He hasn't been with pebbles
now for a couple of weeks since all this blew up,
and he won't and he misses her grainy sand. Does
it has moisture within the sand, And it says it happens
when the temperature gets below freezing for several days and
you go in there to spread the sand and it
(41:06):
just chips your scoop because it's just a solid block
of icy sand.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Gotta get a better scoop.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Hey, this bucket of sand won't fit in my microwave.
Someone will be out there with a blowtorch trying to
thaw out, kind of thrust out the barrel of sands.
Someone else comes out and says, hey, if you have
a blowtorch, why don't you just do the street Oh
and thought about that step. I could eliminate the middleman
(41:34):
here of the sand and just put it down on
the streets. But I can't wait for this winter. City
of Omaha is like, what else can we have the
people do that we used to do that we don't
want to do anymore. I'll tell you what I could do.
I could probably do all the construction in downtown Omaha
a lot faster than you guys.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
Are changing street light light bulbs.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Put me in charge, Scott, What would you do about
all this construction on Tenth Street where people can't get
in and out of the Old Market or c Chi.
We got a bunch of concerts and fun stuff going on.
People can't drive anywhere down here. What would you do
about this issue where we're tearing up the streets to
put down street car rails? I said, Oh, well, what
I would do is not put down street car rails.
(42:14):
So let me know if I can.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Help That ship has sailed.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Let me know if I can help you out with
anything else. Well, how about this? Then then dig out
the trench that they've already done, and now we can
have a waterway and we can actually have ships sailing
on it. Wouldn't that be.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Fun instead of trains?
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Yeah, it'd be like venice.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Yeah, that is a great idea.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Do I hear a siren going off or what's going on?
Speaker 2 (42:38):
It would be a drill. I know you're not a
manly man. You probably wouldn't know what that sound is.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Your wife, boy, you know what, I missed you yesterday
with both of these fingers. I missed you yesterday. Yeah,
I don't what is that? Oh? That would be men working.
That's why, Scott, you don't know what the sound of
that is? You know what, Chapman. Yeah, we're gonna fight,
come on, put him up.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
It has to be for charity, and it has to
be in front of people in the ring.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Lucy just gloves.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Yeah, you pick the charity. I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Lucy's gonna whip me in the ring. Then she's gonna
have a parade in her honor, and then she's gonna
get arrested by the cops. This is the timeline.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Somebody put this together. We could do this. We can
make this happen. Do you know I could hit something?
Speaker 1 (43:28):
You can hit me if you want, I'll let you
punch me in the gut. On Facebook Live. Okay, that's
how Houdini died. You know, yeah, I know. Do you
know what my punk son said about me the other day? No,
fifteen year old sophomore in high school. He loves playing
basketball and he goes up and he plays with guys
every Saturday. And this past Saturday, as I have said before,
(43:51):
and I'm I'm kind of serious when I say this.
I said, if you guys need another guy to run fives,
call me. And I always say that. He's like, okay, Dad,
you know, I'm like, no, no, I'd do it. I mean,
I might not be the best player out there, but
I'm another body. And so I was always kind of
hoping that he would text me and go, hey, if
(44:13):
you're serious, we only have nine guys. We want to
go five on five. How fast can you get here.
I'm like, I'm on my way. I get my old
Charles Barkley shoes from nineteen ninety three, and I'd head
there and uh, but he's never called me, he's never
texted me. But this last Saturday, I said, how to go?
He said, good, we didn't have enough guys. So you
know my buddy's dad. Oh no, I was in the area,
(44:36):
and he jumped in and played with us, and I said,
I said you had wait, you had a dad out
there plan And my son immediately recognized like I wanted
to play. He's like, oh no, but he actually knows
what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
I looked at him like and he's like, oh, I mean,
I mean he's I was like, okay, I see how
this is.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
Oh that's terrible. That's a terrible story.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
I know, been bugging me all week.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
I can make you laugh real quick.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
I've just been over here decomposing all week.
Speaker 3 (45:08):
Uh, please getting just real quick. Right back to the
punching you.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Yes, if we you did make me laugh.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
If we get if we get into a ring and
you start punching me, if you punch me in the gut,
then my muffin top will be a blueberry muffin tup.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
A black and blueberry muffin. That. Uh, that does make me.
It also makes me sad.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Which part have a muffin? No, your son just totally distant.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
It makes me sad that I don't actually get to
punch you because I would never hit a lady.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
I'm no lady who said up.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
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