December 17, 2024 • 62 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez Lucy, You're right, this story about the people
running into stuff in the road up near Bennington does
get weirder and weirder. But we'll have to get to
that a little bit later in the program. Because I
got some criticism on kfab's Morning News for providing these
fantastic broadcast teases and then going scirrel when I come
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to the other side of that and I and I
admit that sometimes that does happen. There's a reason why
that might happen, and why I'm doing it again. Either
what I had teased and I was going to talk
about in two minutes I wasn't that enthused about and
found something better, or we get breaking news. As I've
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always said, this radio program is guaranteed to be a
cure for boredom. Either it's going to enthrall and entertain
you beyond your wildest dreams. Or whatever you were previously
bored by that you decided to leave and come listen
to this radio show. You can go back to that
previously boring activity with renewed vigor. Either way you win.
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Now we've got a story here in Nebraska being blamed
on right wing political persuasions. This is going to come
as an amazing shock to you. But a talk radio
host is about to go on a right wing rant
and blame the other political side on this one. But
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unlike what they do, I have proof and I'll try
and do it without yelling. Here's the story and it
comes from the Nebraska Examiner. It says vaccination rates for
Nebraska's school children continue to decline, and we've got now
rates of vaccinations falling below in some for some vaccines
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falling below ninety five percent, which is the national target
rate for healthy children ninety five percent. We are below
ninety five percent for chicken pox and MMR measles, mumps,
and rubella. These are standard vaccinations that you get when
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you're born in this country and you have to show
them when you go to school, which is why we
have the story here that says vaccination rates for Nebraska's
school children continue to decline. MMR rate is ninety four
point five percent and chicken pox ninety three point five percent.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
What were they before? I know what you said, ninety
five was where they wanted to be.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
In before COVID. Yeah, so the school year where you
got to school in the fall of twenty nineteen, Nebraska's
vaccination rate for MMR was ninety six point three. That
has fallen now to ninety four point five. So it's
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down a couple of points since COVID, and they say
it mirrors a national trend. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation,
there are several states now that are below ninety five
percent target rate for some of these vaccines. Now, why
is this, Well, we've got some people here, like the
former state. I knew i'd have to try and say
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this word epedimologist doctor Tom's sephranic, one of those words
was going to be a problem for me. This is
someone who now works for a company that does work
site immunizations and doctor Tom says it's not doctor Tom Osborne.
Doctor Tom Sophrantic says the lower vaccination rates appear to
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be related to a backlash against all vaccines in the
wake of COVID and the COVID vaccine. And of course
there are people out there that feel that vaccines give
their kids autism. Now, people have believed that that autism
link with vaccines for several years. This could goes back
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decades on that people have heard that. But now we're
saying we're putting kids at risk by avoiding immunizations. There's
a lot of misinformation out there despite the good science
that supports vaccinations. And he says, look, you know, there
are some people who this is not and this is
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me putting words in his mouth. There are some people
have some questions about COVID in the COVID vaccine, but
come on, measles, chicken pox, this is this is good science. Quote.
There's a pretty good scientific basis for vaccines and that
the benefits far outweigh the risk unquote. It's a pretty
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good scientific Who are who's the advertiser that used Tracy
Morgan a couple of years ago, you know, pretty good
versus great. That parachute's pretty good as you go plummet.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Into so familiar.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, I don't know, and I remember what they ad
was for. It might have been pizza. I don't know.
So that's probably not exactly the most confident sounding statement here.
But the story is blaming Trump supporters, MAGA people, the
conservative political wing of this country. Oh yeah, you know them.
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They these people have they're science deniers. They've been blaming
the COVID vaccine for all of this different stuff. These
right wingers, they're the reason they're not getting their kids immunized.
And we got now under ninety five percent of kids
in public schools in Nebraska in the last couple of years,
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few years who don't get these vaccines. Darn right wingers.
Here's another way of looking at it. And I've got
two stories out of New York City to support my
claim I'm about to make. Here's a guy who's executive
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director of the NYC Test and Trace Corps. He says,
we're seeing so many unvaccinated kids in the New York
City Health Department that these kids they come to this
country from parts unknown. These are illegal immigrants who bring
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their kids here. These are asylum seekers who are granted
temporary status. These are people who came to our southern border.
And we're told by the Biden administration, all right, we're
going to let you in this country, and we're going
to give you access to everything you ever wanted, but
you better come back here to this court room and
seven and a half years for your asylum hearing. You're
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not just getting a free pass here. Come on. And
so they come in here and their kids end up
in school. These kids either aren't vaccinated or the story
here from the New York Post talks about some mom
that said, yeah, my kids vaccinated. I approof of their
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vaccination from Ecuador, and I've been trying to get Ecuador
to give our New York Public School PS E eleven
in Hell's kitchen. I'm trying to get Ecuador to give
up the vaccination records here from my third grader. Turns
out Ecuador is a little slow on that one. She said,
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I took my kid for blood test to prove he
was vaccinated. I'm waiting for the results to show the school.
But the school has been a little overwhelmed with migrant children.
How much so? Eighteen thousand, five hundred asylum seekers added
to the school system over the school year twenty twenty three.
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That's the last fall through this past spring. I don't
have current stats here for the current school year, but
as of the last school year in New York City's
public school system, eighteen thousand, five hundred asylum seekers. These
are just the children and they come here and they say,
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we need your proof, proof of vaccination. We don't have that. Well,
now you go to the National Department of Education. The
Biden administration rules say that kids living in temporary housing,
including asylum seekers, even if they can't immediately show vaccination
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or academic records, must be allowed to go to school.
They must be allowed in school. Now, let's see here.
This is a story from the New York Post. Here's
another one from WABC. New York City public schools. Thousands
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of migrant children seeking asylum will be attending classes. WABC says,
and I quote these students won't be facing the same
vaccination requirements as the Department of Education works to speed
up their entry into the classroom unquote, talks about one
of the borough presidents. Staten Island Borough President Veto Fasela
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worries that this could place the health of other children
at risk. Facilla says, although the policy exception is in
place to make life an entry into the school system
easier for migrants, it's risky and hypocritical. If your kid
is born and raised in one of the boroughs wants
to go to the local public school, they're not going
to be allowed entry unless they can show all their
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health records. But if you come here from a borough
in Guatemala, come on in, have a seat. Which road
do you want to sit in? Try not to chew
gum during class. You don't have to show any health records.
I'm sure it's all fine. And then the school has
to compile the number of those students who show their
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health records, who have their vaccinations on file, and they
have to give them over to the Department of Education.
And you've got some people who are being honest about this, saying, yeah,
our school kids here, some of these vaccination rates are down.
Now some of the parents tell us that, yeah, our
kids are vaccinated. Why. Here's one story. Another mom from
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Ecuador tells the New York Post our son has been
attending eighth grade classes at the City Nole Middle School,
New York public school. Kid's been there for about two months,
although his shots were not up to date. Quote a
month ago, they asked me for the vaccine records and
he did have vaccines in Ecuador, but he still had
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to have six more. I member which ones he got
unquote that's from mom. So that kid's been in school,
and that's going to be a knock against the number
of kids who showed their up to date vaccinations. Except
some of these reports, and this is amazing. These are
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New York media members including WABC admit the reason why
these vaccination rates are down is because we have an
influx of migrant kids and they don't have to show
the same a documentation that kids born and raised in
America have to show. But then you've got the Nebraska Examiner,
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which I don't know to be a left wing political organization,
but I've noticed that more and more of their reporting,
especially from the national standpoint, seems to be a bit
more left leaning. This story here in the Nebraska Examiner
fails to point out the obvious truth that's been reported
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in many other media sources. This isn't something that just
comes out of my mouth, and this isn't something like
we had a school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin yesterday. There
is a lot of information online, including a purported manifesto
from the shooter. The shooter's boyfriend gave it this. Yeah,
the shooter's boyfriend gave it to someone via What's app
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app and that person said, here's the shooter's manifesto and
it's out there, and here's a picture of the shooter,
and here's some information about the shooter's persuasions and so forth.
That I don't have any idea if any of that's true,
no idea. There's all kinds of misinformation that comes out
online in the immediate wake of something like that, from
all kinds of people that want to score points and
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proof points on any number of different political persuasions. I
don't know, we're not ready to report all that. This
isn't that, this is established media meaning. The reason why
vaccination rates are down in America's public schools is because
of the influx of migrant children that the Biden Department
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of Education changed the rules on and said they don't
need to be up to date with their vaccinations like
other kids. Let them in school. It's more important for
them to be in school. Okay, then, don't come at
me with the story that says vaccination rates for Nebraska's
school children continue to decline. Yeah, a lot of misinformation
out there. You know, those right wingers, they don't believe
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in the COVID vaccine, so they're not getting their kids
vaccinated for chicken pox and measles. And now we're gonna
have a bunch of measles and chicken pox among all
these kids because of these right wingers and their misinformation
about autism and COVID.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Oh yeah, you gotta play the long game, Scott. You
gotta start setting it up now.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Oh I know, I know. And nothing in the story
about the influx of migrant children that is dragging down
these vaccination rates. Nothing in there. This is un fair reporting,
This is lazy reporting, and frankly, I expect better of
this particular reporter who I'll let remain unnamed, longtime name
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with the Omaha World Herald. Like a lot of those
media members, they got cut loose from the local paper
and now they're working for, among other places, the Nebraska Examiner, which,
like I said, I don't know to be a left
wing organization. Generally, they do a fine job of reporting
and a lot of their reporters are very good. This
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one missed the mark. It's a good thing I was here,
said nobody.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Scott Boyes News Radio eleven kfab.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Emery Songer also yesterday talked with Mike McDonald, mayoral candidate
and one who is critical of, among other things, now
the city's response to the ice storm. Yesterday, at this time,
we were just wrapping up our conversation with Omaha Mayor
Jean Stothard on this program, talking about, among other things,
her response to the ice storm and the again this
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is misinformation online. The worst was a picture that was
put out online that was purportedly from a local TV
station that had a picture of Mayristothard and a quote
that said, I'm getting reports that cars are piling up
in the streets. Folks. If you're parked illegally, you will
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be toad. End of story. And this was shared by,
among other people, Mike McDonald. He should have looked at
this and said this is not true. At the same time,
if I mean the city code is if you decide like, well,
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I can't get up this hill. Let's say ninetieth and
Dodge that area, you're on westbound, You're trying to get
up the hill, and this is a place that a
lot of people, including some trucks, have had trouble getting
up there, and so you just decide like, well, I
can't get up this hill, and I'll probably never get
up this hill. More of a life affirmation situation. You know,
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I'm looking here, I've been running up this hill, running
up this hill? What is it? Kate Bush on that
one in your eighties and twenty twenties movie or music
reference for this segment of the radio program, A song
from Kate Bush came out in the eighties and got
repopular a couple of years ago thanks to stranger things.
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So I've been running up that hill and I can't
make it, So I'm just gonna park my car here
and walk away forever. Yes, if that's the case, you've
now illegally parked your car on Dodge Street, which you
can't do. You will be towed. But the fact that
people saw that quote and they're like, I can't believe
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that she's sitting there in her ivory tower, probably out
of town somewhere, which is another thing that Mike McDonald
insinuated incorrectly and had this let them eat cake moment.
You know you're you're gonna be towed end of story.
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It's amazing what people will believe. Well, it was right
there with the I mean even my wife said, well,
how did they do that? With the TV graphics? Like,
it's super easy. Could grab my teenage son and say, here,
make make one of these, put your mom's picture on here,
and attribute a quote to her. Because I didn't do that.
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I didn't want to see what my son would come
up with. But it's actually very very easy story. We
talked about on Friday out of the Bennington area. This
is up on Highway thirty six, near like one hundred
and thirty second Street, and it was really weird, and
we talked about it on Friday, and then it just
got weirder. Here was the weird part of the story.
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There was a couple was driving up there. They come
over a hill at night on Highway thirty six and
they see a big honk of something right there in
the middle of the road. They swerve to avoid it,
end up in the ditch. Thankfully, they're okay. They see
a car kind of park nearby, lights on, and the
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guy's like, hey, you guys, okay, saw what happened. I
already called the authorities. They're on their way. You want
to get in my car and you need to ride anywhere,
And they're like, we're okay. So they're talking about that,
and then they are talking to the authorities and the
authorities say wait, because then the guy takes off. The
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authorities say, wait a second. You said there was a
guy kind of stationed here nearby and he offered to
help you immediately. It's funny because there have been a
few other people here in this same area who reported
have to swerve to or they actually hit something in
the middle of the road. One of them was like,
kids bike and they get out and there's a guy
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park nearby. Hey, you okay, And so people are like,
this guy is intentionally leaving junk in the road just
to watch people hit it, and then he's on the
scene for who knows what reason. Now the authority said, now,
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we don't know that something about this particular road and
all the big hunks of junk in the road. It
should be noted that this is on the way to
the landfill. Could be things are just falling out of trucks,
so let's not jump to conclusions. That was the weird
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that we talked about on Friday. Here's where it got
weird er. The story from WOWT First Alert six I
mentioned that the story started with a couple that was
driving They found a big hunk of something in the road,
swerved to avoid it. They said, the guy was there
and all that. So the guy's name was listed in
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the news story first and last name. His first name
is Garrison. So Garrison talks to First Alert six they
print his name in the story. Now, since Friday, WWT
has received three voicemails, Hello, this is Garrison. I would
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like this news article about this accident to be removed. Please,
I don't want my name listed with this story. Please
take this story down. This is Garrison. So News reached
out to Garrison said here's the voicemail we received. Garrison says,
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that's not me, that's not my voice. But I tell
you who that sounds like. Sounds like the guy who
was hanging out there offering to help us after we
or swerve to avoid hitting this big honk of metal
in the road. And then they reached out to another guy.
This guy's name is Kyle, he's the one who hit
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the kid's bicycle, and the guy was nearby played the
voicemail for him. He goes, yeah, that definitely sounds like
the same person who pulled up behind me after I
hit the bike in the road. Now, it should also
be noted the Douglas County Sheriff's office is looking into this,
and they said, we have a person of interest that
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we have a beat on. But it also should be
noted that it's not against the law to call the
TV station and say, yeah, this is me, take that
news story down with me, and it's not you. Now,
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if he calls the sheriff's office and says that is
a crime, but calling Mike McKnight and saying that not
a crime, you can call Mike McKnight tell him anything
you want. You can lie to Brian Mastery and John
Nicely all day and a lot of the people that
play golf against John Nicely have to lie about their
score in order to beat him. That's not against the law.
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It's a higher moral code, certainly, but it's not against
the law. So right now, we got a bunch of
weirdness out there, but we have zero evidence that any
crime has been committed. How weird is all this? Now
here's another layer of weird. Lucy, You've been a part
of kfab's morning news today hearing Gary and Jim say
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that our phones were broken. They couldn't get anyone on
the So I'm sitting here in the phone rings like, well,
let's see if our phones work. And it's a guy
named Bruce that said I hit something out there around Bennington,
So let's see if our phones are working. Hello, Bruce,
You're on news radio eleven ten KFAB. Scott Vorhee is
good morning.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Hi Scott.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
It looks like they're working, you know what, the wonders
of modern technology.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
That's exactly right. Well, a few pieces fell into place
for me while you were given that description of what
happened was. I was driving just west of the Papio
Creek on Highway thirty six, going up that hill, and
I never did see what I hit, but I hit
something that just made a horrific racket underneath my Ford
Explorer and probably helped it. You know, it's sitting up
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in the air a little bit more than a car. Yeah,
And I was trying to figure out what it was,
and I backed up to see if it made any noise,
and then I took off again, very slowly, and it
quit making a noise. So I thought, well, whatever it is,
it's gone right. And so as I'm pulling back out
on Highway thirty six, it must have been that it
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was at Jake, the other guy that you talked about.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
No, the two names we have here, a guy named
Garrison at a gun named Kyle.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Kyle is the guy must have been behind me, because
as I'm pulling out onto Highway thirty six, somebody was
pulling over behind me onto the shoulder. I was watching
him in my rearview mirror, and I thought initially it
was because he was going to stop and help me,
but he stopped quite away his back and then a
car pulled up behind him.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Ah, yeah, that sounds like I went home. Yeah, he's
describing that he hit something, pulled over, and a guy
pulled up behind him and said, why don't you sit
in my car while we're waiting for the authorities to
show up, which is really weird. So you saw that
had happened, what'd you do?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Well?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I just I went home. But the next day I
never knew what I hit. But when I went to
go to run some errands the next day, I saw
a little, tiny, one of the smallest little bicycles that
they make, sitting on the side of the road. I said, well,
that's it. None of this had come out yet, so
I just thought it fell out of something on the
way to the dump.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Like they say, when did this happen?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
This happened Thursday night am when I saw the bicycle
was Friday morning.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Okay, what would you do if you pull over there, which, frankly,
it wouldn't have been a bad idea to make sure
that whatever you hit that it didn't do any damage
to your car. You weren't linking any fluids anything like that,
and some guy just pulls up behind you say hey, okay,
you wouldn't think anything of that normally, right.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Not normally?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
No, No, What does it make you think about it?
What does it make you think about this story? Now?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Well, it makes me think that, Well, there's quite a
few of us, as a small town. I'm actually from Bennington,
but I live in Washington, and there's quite a few
of us have a pretty good idea who it.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Was without knowing. Yeah, first of all, I'm sure I'm
getting emails right now going this has got to be
the guy. So there are probably people listening right now
think it's you. Who's weird guy out there? Is it you?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Well, well, Kyle, Kyle can tell you that there was
a truck in front of him that pulled out. I mean,
I've got a verification. I mean he had to have
seen me.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Okay, so let's just say, let's just say it's not you.
I'm going to take your word for it here without
without naming the individual that everyone's keying in on here,
what can you tell me about that person?
Speaker 4 (26:24):
He is? He's not he's really smart, but he's socially awkward, okay,
and he's been accused of a few other things. We'll
just put it that way. And and when my cousin
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played your tape of the guy or the Channel six
tape of the guy calling in, and we both said, well,
that's him.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
That's him. Yeah. Oh, I didn't realize they had his
voice on the TV report. That's what I get for
being a reader. Yeah. Interesting. Okay, So right now, we
don't have anything that is obvious that a crime has
been committed. So what do you think authorities in your
community should do?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
You No, what I'm going to say, I don't know. Yeah,
you know, nobody got hurt, and you know, something should
be done to make it at least inconvenient for him
if they figure out who it is, all.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Right, I mean, if he's intentionally putting stuff on the
road and vehicles have been damaged.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
And that's he's the kind of guy that would.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, well you wonder if he's the kind of guy
who if authorities talk to him, if he might break
After a couple of minutes ago, it was me I
put all that stuff out there.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
No, we both agreed that he would never do that.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Oh, interesting, interesting little twist. But yeah, yeah, all right, Hey, Bruce,
thanks a lot for calling. I appreciate hearing from you. Okay,
thank you, and I'm glad our phones work here on
news radio eleven to ten kfa B. I'll relay that
information to the rest of the team here.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I'm sorry, but that's just more weirdness. How so that
he said he would never do that, that.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
He would never admit to doing it. Let's clarify that.
I said, I said, you know, do you think he's
the kind of guy who police say, look, we know
you did it, all right, I did it. You know
he would break and admit all of this. Okay, he said, no, No,
we think he's the kind of guy who would never
do that, meaning he would never admit to it. An
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important clarification, thank you. Lucy's potential weirdo of putting stuff
in the road there just to watch people hit it,
he doesn't. And this is the other thing. The sheriff's
deputies there say, we don't get the impression that he's
like wanting to abduct or kill anyone or anything like that.
He just kind of enjoys watching people get mildly inconvenienced
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and maybe be there to help, Like maybe he's got
like a hero complex. Oh I saw you just hit
that bucket I put in the road. Are you okay? Yeah,
I'm fine. It's a bucket. Okay. Well, if you need anything,
I'm here. Are you humming the Indiana Jones?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
So we have weirdos in our midst you know that, right.
Don't look at me like that this guy.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I am well aware of weirdos in our mids.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I read the sign like this guy who just got sentenced.
He is from Ireton, Iowa. Was a passenger almost exactly
a year ago, about a year ago on a Delta
Airlines flight that left from Omaha heading to LaGuardia. Shortly
after the aircraft's external doors were closed following boarding, as
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the plane was taxing toward the runway, this guy named
Wesley began yelling God is real and then fighting fellow passengers. Now,
obviously this is someone from my church. This is the
reason why church going has been up in my particular parish.
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Our pastor loves yelling God is real and then just
going from pew to pew, just knocking fools out. It's fun,
and he invites parishioners to take a shot at him.
I tell you what, it's a lot of fun. We're
installing top ropes. It's great. Some people thought this was weird.
I don't. I mean, we hand out snakes, we punched
the pastor, we yell God is reel. It is actually
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the kids love it. Yes, I'm lying about all of that.
I have to say things like that. People like I
heard that on the AM radio. It must be true. Yes,
sometimes it is. So. This guy is yelling God is Real,
starts chattering about demons and then tries to open the
cabin door and then starts fighting with passengers. God is Real, Real,
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confused as to what happened with the life that was
breathed into you. And then there's this guy Hartford, Connecticut.
The guy is going one hundred miles per hour along
I ninety one on Friday morning. When the state troopers said,
that's too fast. What's the speed limit here? Is it
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one hundred and No, it's about half that, all right?
Get him? So they try and pull him over. He
refuses to stop. He's just flying down the interstate emergency
lights going behind him. He won't stop. In the interest
of public safety, state troopers gave up Chase, but they
had the license plate number. Contacted the family and they said, yeah,
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we think we know who this is. The registered owner
no longer resides here, but you might want to check
over here. They go over there, they see the vehicle,
They knock on the door. The driver answers, and they said,
you know, we're trying to stop you. He's like, yeah,
I know, but I didn't stop because I've never been
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pulled over before, and I'm frightened of tractor trailers on
the highway. I'm afraid I'm gonna pull off the side
of the road and one of those eighteen wheelers is
going to hit me. So instead, I just decided to
go one hundred miles per hour, weaving in and out
of traffic. Authorities say, well, that's interesting. We think maybe
you didn't stop because your license has been suspended. What
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he admitted that maybe that was also the reason he's
got a battery of charges against him. I didn't know
longtime Omaha public servant and businessman Mark Kraft, but I
certainly know of him, not just from his years on
the Omaha City Council, which was during a time when
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I didn't live in Omaha, not very much. I think
maybe he started here when I was Yeah, he would
have been on the council when I still lived here.
Was working at a couple other radio stations way back when,
but mostly I was either away at college or moving
down to Kansas City, and so I didn't get a
chance to grill him mercilessly on the radio as a
member of the council. As a member of the Douglas
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County Commission. I did look and see where I had
sent him a couple of messages and said, Hey, Mark,
you're getting torn apart on the radio this morning. Do
you want to come on here and set the record straight?
You want to talk in the radio. I'm on until
eleven and no response. And then I sent a message
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and I'm also on tomorrow morning from nine to eleven.
No response. I don't remember what the issue was, but
with the Douglas County Commission, could have been anything. So
I didn't know Mark. I know he ran a furniture
store downtown. I loved hearing Terry Lahy and a KFAB
news update saying the Terry said, I can still hear
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the radio ads for that company saying we'd down on
town and we love it. Or something to that effect.
My apologies if I screwed up the slogan. But there
was another thing about Mark Kraft, who passed away over
the weekend at the age of seventy seven. There was
another thing about Mark Craft that caused me to have
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to do a little bit of action this morning. And
I hope this doesn't sound insensitive. In fact, I do
this so as not to be insensitive. At some point,
Mark Kraft friended me on Facebook. I don't know why.
The only interaction there would have been me wishing him
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a happy birthday and the aforementioned messages of trying to
get him on the radio at some point, so I
at some point he wanted to see what all the
fuss was about. I don't know. So I know we
are Facebook friends. I recognized him being a Facebook friend,
and upon hearing his passing this morning, and again I
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hope this doesn't sound insensitive, but I went on Facebook
and unfriended him. And the reason why is not because
like he's of no use to me anymore. That's not
anything like that. It's sometimes because I love going on
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every day and telling my Facebook friends happy birthday, especially
if it is in fact their birthday. So I'll jump
on there and it'll pop up there, and sometimes I
admit I'm doing it a little quickly and I might
not immediately recognize. And I've had to catch myself a
couple of times with people I do know who just
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because you die doesn't mean that you get unfriended on Facebook.
There's some I mean, I can't if there are some
people on there who we're longtime friends of mine, were
family members, and I don't bounce them because they die,
because I like the annual reminder, at least of about
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their lives. And I'll instead of saying happy birthday, instead
I'll say thinking of you on your birthday, and I am,
and I take that moment to pause and remember now
for someone who I don't know. Sometimes people friend me
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on Facebook and I don't know them.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
You just right still don't know you, and i'd know and.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I don't know that they've died, and so it could
be that they've been gone for five months and then
the family and friends see an insensitive post from me
saying happy birthday, and then they sometimes they'll send a
message that's like I don't know if you know this,
but and so a few times they get mad.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
How dare you they get mad?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Oh, that's why I quit doing it unless I know them.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, well, I remember one of them, the angry ones,
came to both of us because we both did a
happy birthday message, and that person sent both of us
a message.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I must have blocked it out.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
I remember, hurt me and I said, I responded to
the person. I said, I have an interesting and weird
job and there and because of it, sometimes I don't
know the people I'm connected to on Facebook. I'm sorry
I didn't get a chance to know that person. But
I presume that they friended me because they maybe kind
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of sort of liked the radio station and me being
a part of it. And I'm sorry I didn't get
a chance to know them. Please don't take offense that
kind of thing. Well, I saw. I don't like it.
It's just it's just awkward for everyone. If you've got
a loved one and you see someone who clearly does
not friends with them, it's like, hey, happy birthday, hope
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you have a great day, Like that person's been dead
for eight months.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
You pick, yeah, but how do you know it's not
the best birthday that they've ever had? Living with Jesus.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Could be well, yeah, it certainly could be living with
Jesus great. Yeah, I mean that that birthday when you
got a bike, or maybe you turn sixteen, they hand
you the keys to your brand new fierro, you know whatever.
That was probably all right too. But Jesus is great,
not a fiero. But I'm kidding, I'm kidding. He has
a sense of humor. Everyone calmed down. So I'll also
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tell the person when they send me a message and
say you wish Betsy a happy birthday. She did like,
all right, So I hope you don't mind, but I'm
gonna unfriend her so I don't make the same mistake
next year because I don't know her and I'm probably
gonna forget by next year. So so I hear that
Mark Craft had passed away, and I thought I'll probably remember,
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but I don't. I didn't. I unfortunately didn't know the man,
so I went on to unfriend him so as not
to uncringly or just not thinking wish him a happy
birthday at some point. Why am I telling you all
of this? Number one kill time Number two? No, I'm kidding.
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I noticed when I went on his page to unfriend him.
There was a post from him from seventeen hours ago
and it's a picture of Mark Craft and it says
Mark Craft, and it says I passed away Saturday night,
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and then he goes on to talk about with family
by his side throughout my life. I felt incredibly fortunate.
But this and that and all that, and I was
at odds man. On one hand, obviously he knew that,
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as we all do. We all know that at some
point our life has an expiration date. Sometimes you're given,
I think, the blessing to know that that expiration date
is any minute now, and and and sometimes you get
some days, maybe weeks, and you don't you know, you can,
you can really tell everyone what you think of them,
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and hopefully that's a nice thing for everybody, you know.
So I think it's I think it's clear that he
knew and wanted this message to be out, and he
wanted it to come from him, and I think that's
very sweet. It's also a little weird.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
I'm glad you brought that up, because I did. I
saw the exact same thing and I had to look
at it twice thought wait what, wait what?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
It's also a little weird, right, It's a.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Little bit weird, but I really kind of like it. Yeah,
I know, and I think if I have knowledge of
my pending, I went on with Jesus, Yeah, I think
I'll do it. I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
I think I would too. But I mean, if you
have an opportunity, and I think Facebook lets you do
this for a regular page. I used to be that
you could because we would do this on Kfab's Facebook page,
but before that turned into a veritable wasteland. I didn't
say that. I'll never admit to say that, but you
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could schedule post in advance, and I don't know if
you can do that for a personal page. I've never
thought to do it. But if I knew that I
was not long for this world, I think I would
probably spend my remaining hours just scheduling a lot of
Facebook posts and advance.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Oh, you wouldn't stop it, just no, Now, that isn't
greatful idea.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
For months and years like there'd be like in the
first few days, it'd be a flurry of message is,
including certainly one about a week or so later it says,
let me out, it's.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Cold and dark down in here, something wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (42:10):
And and then there'd be someone's like there'd be one,
you know, from five years from now going, yeah, I
didn't think that Trump was gonna leave office, you know whatever.
I mean just all kinds of Basically, I try and
position myself as Nostra Dome, like what does nostra Scott
misthink that it's going to happen here? And and that's
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that's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Well, who knows, maybe he did that too. We'll have
to watch that Facebook.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
And what's probably gonna happen is I'm not gonna have
any idea and I'm my Facebook will go on, which
I think is what the Seline Dion song was trying
to say. You know the song my Life Will go On? Right,
it's not.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
It heart heart, my heart will go on?
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Oh? Is it my heart will go on?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Oh yeah, mis Hurdler like, it's not by heart.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
It's by lean Deon? Is it by heart? Sorry? My
heart will go on? It was really about the beating
heart of your Facebook page that continues after you die.
I mean, unless someone has access to it, it doesn't
continue with posts, but it's still there, and I I
guess I'm fine with that, because what the heck am
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I going to care but right.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
I mean some people you can set up an advance,
like if I die, this person can have access to
my page and they can go in there and shut
it down or whatever. Like what in the world am
I going to care? That'll be like thirteenth on my
list of concerns after I die.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
I just thought of a new business taking over the
pages of people who have passed, yeah, and kind of
going along with their same kind of personality.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
That would mean that you would have access to their
page while they're still alive, and that could create problems.
That would create problems. So I don't know, I but
I thought that that. I thought that was sweet that Markkraft,
longtime Omaha public servant, City Council, County Commission, business owner,
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Central High School Foundation. Let's see what says a memorial
post on the Central High School Foundation. Yeah, he graduated
at some point, I think, Well, this says a memorial
post on the Central High School Foundation website noted that
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he graduated from Creighton All right, So anyway, I thought
it was a sweet thing. But if I I'll say,
I'll do I'll tell you this. If I die and
I'm still posting on Facebook, I'm not dead, Keep Hillary
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and away from me.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
Scott Bodies were you know it?
Speaker 1 (45:02):
News Radio elevenfab my daily dispatch from the satirical news
website The Babylon b The headline here on this fake
news website. Family enjoying annual holiday tradition called everyone gets
Everyone gets violently ill and takes turns annihilating the bathroom.
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Oh ho ho. You ever had a Christmas like that
where everyone got sick?
Speaker 2 (45:31):
I no, but it would be my last. Oh at
who's ever hosting that one?
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Great Ben Kansas. Everyone in the house and we were
all staying in the house. This was my wife's grandma
and Grandpa's house and Great Ben Kansas And it was
a wonderful holiday experience until something tore through the house
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and we all thought, wouldn't it be great if we
all stayed at the house? People are sleeping on the floor,
you know, it's it's one of those kind of deals.
You're thinking, Oh, they must have a big house. No, oh,
there might. There must have been only a few of
you there also. No, it was just like it is
like house cats just strewn about everywhere, And somehow we
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managed to all get sick, but not all of us.
There were two people in the house who didn't get sick,
my father in law and me. Now what caused us
not to get as sick as everyone else in that house.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
It wasn't something that you all arrest everybody ate.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
No, it wasn't that, okay, but it was We still
we still feel to this day that there was There
was only one thing that set my father in law
and me apart from everyone else in the house. My
wife's brother came up from Albuquerque with a special gift
for anyone who wanted it, green wine. It was terrible.
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It's just as bad as you think it is. Just
it's just like like you take all the spice and
and add like a really awful kind of an alcoholic
flavor to it and just drink it. You're not pouring
it over anything like a nice sauce. I like a
nice green chili sauce. But in Albuquerque, you don't eat
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anything without either green or red chili. So he thought
it'd be funny to bring this horrible bottle of green
chili wine to the holiday festivities. What's funny about that
is you're like, well, wait a second, how come he
got sick? Oh? Because my brother in law doesn't drink.
He just brought the beverage for anyone who wanted it.
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My father in law said, this actually is pretty good.
And then, being the new guy, we were freshly married,
I think at this time, being the new guy, still
being tested by my older brother in law, are you
gonna have any I said I really don't, and he's like, oh,
you don't want, fine, give me a glass. And then
I acted like I liked it and had probably a
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big glass and maybe two glasses of it, and my
father in law is now, I guess, trying to match me,
and we're drinking all this green chili wine. It was terrible.
But later that night and throughout the next day, everyone
got so sick except me and my father in law.
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And we still say it's the green chili wine. It's
medicinal killed whatever bacterial or virus infection.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
I can see that happening, actually, but.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
That virus showed up in my system and said what
is this? Did he just drink kerosene? We're out and left?
Speaker 2 (48:54):
How fast did that hit everybody?
Speaker 1 (48:58):
In the span of about a day and a half.
Oh yeah. And then and actually late the next day
there was still a couple of people still standing and
they succumbed to it the next day. Okay, so in
the course of the next couple.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
Of days it was a neurovirus type.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
Probably, Yeah, something like that. Yeah, it was pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
Yeah, that's never happened to me.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
Yeah, so that that headline.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
I'm not saying at a hostel, though it hits home.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Yeah, family enjoying annual holiday tradition called everyone gets violently
ill and takes turns annihilating the bathroom. Ho ho ho.
What do we think of this one? This is from
the State Department of Motor Vehicles. The Nebraska DMV just
announced yesterday that starting January first, annual registration fees for
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electric vehicles will double from seventy five dollars to one
hundred and fifty dollars. One hundred and fifty dollars a month,
no a day, no a year. Yeah. Early expense of
one hundred and fifty dollars had been seventy five. Now
it's one fifty.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
And they still have to pay a wheel tax.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
And well for Omaha, Yeah, the state DMV has nothing
to do with them. If you're you know, in the
Omaha area, Yeah, you still got to pay wheel tax
that goes towards maintenance of the roads and so forth.
And yeah, you drive on the roads, so we got
to charge of the wheel tax. But a lot of
the road maintenance comes from people who buy gas because
on every gallon of gas, if you're paying two dollars
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and a gallon of gas, well let us know where
you're getting that. But just to you know, for round numbers,
if the gallon of gas costs you two dollars, I
think it's three dollars of that as all taxes. Yes,
I said it that way on purpose. Anyway, it's a
lot of taxes, and some of that goes to some
road maintenance and so forth. And the argument has been,
wait a second, these people with their evs are driving
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on our roads and they're they're causing just as much
down to the road. Some of these evs actually cost
a lot more. They're doing more damn much of the roads,
and they're not paying for the maintenance of the roads
because they're not buying gasoline. And so the options were
charge them this yearly expense of a registration fee, an
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annual registration fee. Well it's not a registration fee. Yeah,
I mean you got to pay for a registration in
your vehicle every year is stupid. So we either do
that or we individually ring their necks. And it was
decided constitutionally and also financially that the annual registration doubling
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of that fee would do better. You can't fund road
maintenance by neck ringing. No one's paying you for that.
You're not extracting any money, as as great as it
might be to actually ring someone's neck. But I here's
where you might be surprised. Not only do I not
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support any neck ringing in this instance, I don't support
the doubling of this annual registration fee just for electric vehicles.
And they say this is for anyone who drives any
kind of plug in hybrid cars, trucks, motorcycles. If you
have a registered EV or plug in hybrid, your annual
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registration fee will double from seventy five to one hundred
and fifty dollars. I disagree with people who drive a
certain type of vehicle being targeted in this way.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
I wonder if it has something to do with recycling
the battery, because that's got to be expensive. But if
that's on you, it wouldn't be on these states.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
Yeah, it wouldn't come from the Nebraska DMV. I would
think that there would be. As you like, if I
don't pay an annual registration on my old Cathode ray
tube TV, then I still have but when I go
to recycle it, I have to pay for the recycling
of it, and I can't just throw it away in
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the trash. No, I don't still have an old tube TV.
We got rid of that days ago, and I forgot
it was actually a few years ago. We had one
more big old as Lucy used to call them, the
j Loo TVs, because I had it.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
I can't say that anymore. So we need to stop
saying that, because it's no longer politically correct, all right.
Speaker 1 (53:30):
Lucy never said this. I used to say it. She
used to chastise me by calling those old TVs j
Loo TVs because they had a big, old backhand on them.
I can't believe that someone thought that you used to
say that.
Speaker 2 (53:44):
I would have said, Kardashian, Right.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
Yeah, I know that's probably the update here. But but
you know, if you buy an EV, it's to save money,
and people are like, well, we can't pay for the
roads if these guys aren't buying guests well, hey, mind
your business. These guys figured something out. What about those
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who ride their bikes or jog on the roads. They're
transporting themselves and they're not paying a wheel time.
Speaker 2 (54:14):
Not yet, not yet, they do as much damage to
the roads and pedestrian over there, right, they don't.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Do as much damage to the roads. The weather does
a bunch of damage to the roads. We've got one
bridge down on South l Street that you can literally
stand underneath it, look up and see the sky through
the bridge, and they're not fixing that.
Speaker 2 (54:36):
I've got one better, but they are fixing it. Did
you see the Fork Road bridge? It dropped seven inches?
Speaker 1 (54:43):
It did.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
That's what the report I read said. It's closed.
Speaker 1 (54:48):
Really, Oh, I you know, I did see that. I
didn't know it was because of some shrinkage. I don't bridge.
Speaker 2 (54:54):
I don't know what caused it. I don't know what
part fell seven inches. I don't know. But it's closed
and yeah, they're.
Speaker 1 (54:59):
Fixed, all right.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
So we need money from the Fort Kirk Road bridge.
Speaker 1 (55:04):
If the argument is that our roads and bridges are
in disrepair and they're all crumbling, and the bridges are
all gonna fall down like London bridges, how in the world.
Are how many people drive evs in the state? You know,
we double the annual registration fee and get an extra
seventy five dollars out of them. Is that Is that
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going towards roads and bridges? Or is it going towards
paying pensions and inflated healthcare costs and staffing fees and
a bunch of other stuff. Does that any of its
actually go to the roads and bridges? Because we got
a lot of people driving on these roads. They're driving
regular gas powered vehicles, And I don't see where all
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of the people what percentage of drivers on the roads
across Nebraska right now, do you think you're driving gas
powered vehicles upwards of ninety seven percent?
Speaker 2 (55:57):
Ninety nine you think it's ninety ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
I'll meet you halfway, like Kenny Loggins. Ninety eight percent
of these drivers are out there driving the gas powered vehicles,
and somehow we're not squeezing enough money out of them,
slash us to fix all the rows and bridges. But
you take the small number of people to drive these
evs and you get an extra seventy five bucks a
year out of them. How in the world is that
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is that? You're telling me. You know, we were gonna
fix that bridge in Bellevue, but we we ran the
math and we were seventy five dollars short, wouldn't you
know it, so we couldn't do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (56:35):
That's a dollar an inch, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (56:37):
This is dumb, right, this is this is just like, Hey,
those guys buy those those evs and you know they
can afford them. They're probably upwards of sixty seventy thousand dollars.
They can afford an extra seventy five bucks. Take it.
I want a full review of their finances. They're the
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old Roads and Bridge Department. Show me that this extra
money is going to do things that we can't figure
out how we can do them. Now, how much more
money are we bringing in? It just seems like this
is just a ah, stick it to those rich people.
They got those EV's, Yeah they don't you know, they're
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not paying for gas. Get seventy five bucks out of them.
Did you disagree with me at the start of this,
and now you kind of see where I'm coming from?
Speaker 2 (57:33):
No, why I agree with you. I agreed with you
from the first, But I still think that's you're only
talking about seven people.
Speaker 1 (57:39):
Yeah, we're not. They're more. I mean, you see a
lot of evs. I see more than seven of those
weird and beautiful and ugly Tesla Suv trucks.
Speaker 2 (57:49):
Oh I forgot that those Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (57:52):
Saw one the other day that was red, like the
bottom half of it was red and then the top
hat was the silver. It was silver.
Speaker 2 (57:58):
Just half was silver, like a can or a pan.
And I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (58:03):
It's like a DeLorean had a relationship, an unholy union
with one of those old Aztech SUVs that was all
jagged or like a what was an Azuzu Trooper? Was
that the rodeo? The Azuzu Rodeo have a big boxy
and have a jagged looking thing, and somehow DeLorean got
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hammered and got into it with a an old Azuzu Rodeo.
Speaker 2 (58:28):
I understand. It was chili vodka.
Speaker 1 (58:31):
Yeah, and then the little too much chili wine where
a green chili wine. Next thing, you know, you and
an old as Tech are making this Tesla Suv. Which
part of me are like, that's super cool, and the
other part it's like, does look like those stupid sunglasses
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that like bodybuilders wore back in the eighties. Its weird.
Just the kind of boxy silver reflective sunglasses. There's a
name for.
Speaker 2 (59:03):
Him, horn glasses Aviator.
Speaker 1 (59:09):
No, not the Aviator. No, these are the ones that
are more like rectangular and boxy, and you're I'll figure it.
Speaker 3 (59:16):
Out, Scotties smoothe radio elevens kfab.
Speaker 1 (59:22):
Those sunglasses I talked about, like these reflective, square, rectangular
kind of looking sunglasses don't seem to have a name,
but I typed in square reflective sunglasses and came up
with several images of exactly what I was thinking of,
like the old like body builder kind of shades, almost
like PC Principle from South Park. That's what those Tesla
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SUVs remind me of.
Speaker 2 (59:48):
Not very much though, if it took you that long
to find it.
Speaker 1 (59:51):
No, I just thought those sunglasses had a name like aviator,
blue Blocker or something like that. They don't. They're just
they're just sunglasses. Do you want to talk more about this,
the glasses.
Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
Or the cars. I'm going to go with no, neither,
all right.
Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
Did you know there was a study recently where they said,
like we told people throw away your black plastic utensils
like a black spatula, because these spatula they said, they're
absorbing like the black plastic is when when you when
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it gets hot, it's releasing all of these toxins and
so forth, and it's getting on your food and it's dangerous.
Did you even hear about this?
Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
I believe it's been debunked.
Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
It has now, But what But my first concern is
apparently there was a study the researcher is a toxic
free future. We're calculating how much toxic flame of the
toxic flame retardant coding on black utensil like a black spatula,
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how much might be coming off on your food or
you're then being absorbed into your body and it's all
the black plastic made from recycled electronics. I don't know
who's doing what to give me a spatula. I didn't
know that there was a study that said these things
might kill you. But now they're saying, hey about that study.
(01:01:29):
We screwed up. They said, we think that we made
a mathematical error in the calculation. I didn't know whatte that.
They didn't realize they had radio people doing the math
on this one. So they said, look, sorry if you
threw away any of your black plastic utensils that may
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have been unnecessary. We still think that there's concern, but
we have no mathematical basis for telling you.
Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
I would question that research because what I understood it
to be is the material that it was made from,
not whether it was flammable or not, but that they
were not no longer using that material to make the
black utensive, so theoretically you could still have some in
your house.
Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
They said there was a typo and a mathematical error.
Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Did this come from the government, No, it.
Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
Came from the guys from office space. They put the
Decimo in the wrong place.
Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
Scott Voices mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven
ten KFAB
Scott Vordiez Lucy, You're right, this story about the people
running into stuff in the road up near Bennington does
get weirder and weirder. But we'll have to get to
that a little bit later in the program. Because I
got some criticism on kfab's Morning News for providing these
fantastic broadcast teases and then going scirrel when I come
(00:25):
to the other side of that and I and I
admit that sometimes that does happen. There's a reason why
that might happen, and why I'm doing it again. Either
what I had teased and I was going to talk
about in two minutes I wasn't that enthused about and
found something better, or we get breaking news. As I've
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always said, this radio program is guaranteed to be a
cure for boredom. Either it's going to enthrall and entertain
you beyond your wildest dreams. Or whatever you were previously
bored by that you decided to leave and come listen
to this radio show. You can go back to that
previously boring activity with renewed vigor. Either way you win.
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Now we've got a story here in Nebraska being blamed
on right wing political persuasions. This is going to come
as an amazing shock to you. But a talk radio
host is about to go on a right wing rant
and blame the other political side on this one. But
(01:27):
unlike what they do, I have proof and I'll try
and do it without yelling. Here's the story and it
comes from the Nebraska Examiner. It says vaccination rates for
Nebraska's school children continue to decline, and we've got now
rates of vaccinations falling below in some for some vaccines
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falling below ninety five percent, which is the national target
rate for healthy children ninety five percent. We are below
ninety five percent for chicken pox and MMR measles, mumps,
and rubella. These are standard vaccinations that you get when
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you're born in this country and you have to show
them when you go to school, which is why we
have the story here that says vaccination rates for Nebraska's
school children continue to decline. MMR rate is ninety four
point five percent and chicken pox ninety three point five percent.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
What were they before? I know what you said, ninety
five was where they wanted to be.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
In before COVID. Yeah, so the school year where you
got to school in the fall of twenty nineteen, Nebraska's
vaccination rate for MMR was ninety six point three. That
has fallen now to ninety four point five. So it's
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down a couple of points since COVID, and they say
it mirrors a national trend. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation,
there are several states now that are below ninety five
percent target rate for some of these vaccines. Now, why
is this, Well, we've got some people here, like the
former state. I knew i'd have to try and say
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this word epedimologist doctor Tom's sephranic, one of those words
was going to be a problem for me. This is
someone who now works for a company that does work
site immunizations and doctor Tom says it's not doctor Tom Osborne.
Doctor Tom Sophrantic says the lower vaccination rates appear to
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be related to a backlash against all vaccines in the
wake of COVID and the COVID vaccine. And of course
there are people out there that feel that vaccines give
their kids autism. Now, people have believed that that autism
link with vaccines for several years. This could goes back
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decades on that people have heard that. But now we're
saying we're putting kids at risk by avoiding immunizations. There's
a lot of misinformation out there despite the good science
that supports vaccinations. And he says, look, you know, there
are some people who this is not and this is
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me putting words in his mouth. There are some people
have some questions about COVID in the COVID vaccine, but
come on, measles, chicken pox, this is this is good science. Quote.
There's a pretty good scientific basis for vaccines and that
the benefits far outweigh the risk unquote. It's a pretty
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good scientific Who are who's the advertiser that used Tracy
Morgan a couple of years ago, you know, pretty good
versus great. That parachute's pretty good as you go plummet.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Into so familiar.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, I don't know, and I remember what they ad
was for. It might have been pizza. I don't know.
So that's probably not exactly the most confident sounding statement here.
But the story is blaming Trump supporters, MAGA people, the
conservative political wing of this country. Oh yeah, you know them.
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They these people have they're science deniers. They've been blaming
the COVID vaccine for all of this different stuff. These
right wingers, they're the reason they're not getting their kids immunized.
And we got now under ninety five percent of kids
in public schools in Nebraska in the last couple of years,
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few years who don't get these vaccines. Darn right wingers.
Here's another way of looking at it. And I've got
two stories out of New York City to support my
claim I'm about to make. Here's a guy who's executive
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director of the NYC Test and Trace Corps. He says,
we're seeing so many unvaccinated kids in the New York
City Health Department that these kids they come to this
country from parts unknown. These are illegal immigrants who bring
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their kids here. These are asylum seekers who are granted
temporary status. These are people who came to our southern border.
And we're told by the Biden administration, all right, we're
going to let you in this country, and we're going
to give you access to everything you ever wanted, but
you better come back here to this court room and
seven and a half years for your asylum hearing. You're
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not just getting a free pass here. Come on. And
so they come in here and their kids end up
in school. These kids either aren't vaccinated or the story
here from the New York Post talks about some mom
that said, yeah, my kids vaccinated. I approof of their
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vaccination from Ecuador, and I've been trying to get Ecuador
to give our New York Public School PS E eleven
in Hell's kitchen. I'm trying to get Ecuador to give
up the vaccination records here from my third grader. Turns
out Ecuador is a little slow on that one. She said,
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I took my kid for blood test to prove he
was vaccinated. I'm waiting for the results to show the school.
But the school has been a little overwhelmed with migrant children.
How much so? Eighteen thousand, five hundred asylum seekers added
to the school system over the school year twenty twenty three.
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That's the last fall through this past spring. I don't
have current stats here for the current school year, but
as of the last school year in New York City's
public school system, eighteen thousand, five hundred asylum seekers. These
are just the children and they come here and they say,
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we need your proof, proof of vaccination. We don't have that. Well,
now you go to the National Department of Education. The
Biden administration rules say that kids living in temporary housing,
including asylum seekers, even if they can't immediately show vaccination
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or academic records, must be allowed to go to school.
They must be allowed in school. Now, let's see here.
This is a story from the New York Post. Here's
another one from WABC. New York City public schools. Thousands
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of migrant children seeking asylum will be attending classes. WABC says,
and I quote these students won't be facing the same
vaccination requirements as the Department of Education works to speed
up their entry into the classroom unquote, talks about one
of the borough presidents. Staten Island Borough President Veto Fasela
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worries that this could place the health of other children
at risk. Facilla says, although the policy exception is in
place to make life an entry into the school system
easier for migrants, it's risky and hypocritical. If your kid
is born and raised in one of the boroughs wants
to go to the local public school, they're not going
to be allowed entry unless they can show all their
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health records. But if you come here from a borough
in Guatemala, come on in, have a seat. Which road
do you want to sit in? Try not to chew
gum during class. You don't have to show any health records.
I'm sure it's all fine. And then the school has
to compile the number of those students who show their
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health records, who have their vaccinations on file, and they
have to give them over to the Department of Education.
And you've got some people who are being honest about this, saying, yeah,
our school kids here, some of these vaccination rates are down.
Now some of the parents tell us that, yeah, our
kids are vaccinated. Why. Here's one story. Another mom from
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Ecuador tells the New York Post our son has been
attending eighth grade classes at the City Nole Middle School,
New York public school. Kid's been there for about two months,
although his shots were not up to date. Quote a
month ago, they asked me for the vaccine records and
he did have vaccines in Ecuador, but he still had
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to have six more. I member which ones he got
unquote that's from mom. So that kid's been in school,
and that's going to be a knock against the number
of kids who showed their up to date vaccinations. Except
some of these reports, and this is amazing. These are
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New York media members including WABC admit the reason why
these vaccination rates are down is because we have an
influx of migrant kids and they don't have to show
the same a documentation that kids born and raised in
America have to show. But then you've got the Nebraska Examiner,
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which I don't know to be a left wing political organization,
but I've noticed that more and more of their reporting,
especially from the national standpoint, seems to be a bit
more left leaning. This story here in the Nebraska Examiner
fails to point out the obvious truth that's been reported
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in many other media sources. This isn't something that just
comes out of my mouth, and this isn't something like
we had a school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin yesterday. There
is a lot of information online, including a purported manifesto
from the shooter. The shooter's boyfriend gave it this. Yeah,
the shooter's boyfriend gave it to someone via What's app
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app and that person said, here's the shooter's manifesto and
it's out there, and here's a picture of the shooter,
and here's some information about the shooter's persuasions and so forth.
That I don't have any idea if any of that's true,
no idea. There's all kinds of misinformation that comes out
online in the immediate wake of something like that, from
all kinds of people that want to score points and
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proof points on any number of different political persuasions. I
don't know, we're not ready to report all that. This
isn't that, this is established media meaning. The reason why
vaccination rates are down in America's public schools is because
of the influx of migrant children that the Biden Department
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of Education changed the rules on and said they don't
need to be up to date with their vaccinations like
other kids. Let them in school. It's more important for
them to be in school. Okay, then, don't come at
me with the story that says vaccination rates for Nebraska's
school children continue to decline. Yeah, a lot of misinformation
out there. You know, those right wingers, they don't believe
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in the COVID vaccine, so they're not getting their kids
vaccinated for chicken pox and measles. And now we're gonna
have a bunch of measles and chicken pox among all
these kids because of these right wingers and their misinformation
about autism and COVID.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Oh yeah, you gotta play the long game, Scott. You
gotta start setting it up now.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Oh I know, I know. And nothing in the story
about the influx of migrant children that is dragging down
these vaccination rates. Nothing in there. This is un fair reporting,
This is lazy reporting, and frankly, I expect better of
this particular reporter who I'll let remain unnamed, longtime name
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with the Omaha World Herald. Like a lot of those
media members, they got cut loose from the local paper
and now they're working for, among other places, the Nebraska Examiner, which,
like I said, I don't know to be a left
wing organization. Generally, they do a fine job of reporting
and a lot of their reporters are very good. This
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one missed the mark. It's a good thing I was here,
said nobody.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Scott Boyes News Radio eleven kfab.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Emery Songer also yesterday talked with Mike McDonald, mayoral candidate
and one who is critical of, among other things, now
the city's response to the ice storm. Yesterday, at this time,
we were just wrapping up our conversation with Omaha Mayor
Jean Stothard on this program, talking about, among other things,
her response to the ice storm and the again this
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is misinformation online. The worst was a picture that was
put out online that was purportedly from a local TV
station that had a picture of Mayristothard and a quote
that said, I'm getting reports that cars are piling up
in the streets. Folks. If you're parked illegally, you will
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be toad. End of story. And this was shared by,
among other people, Mike McDonald. He should have looked at
this and said this is not true. At the same time,
if I mean the city code is if you decide like, well,
(15:52):
I can't get up this hill. Let's say ninetieth and
Dodge that area, you're on westbound, You're trying to get
up the hill, and this is a place that a
lot of people, including some trucks, have had trouble getting
up there, and so you just decide like, well, I
can't get up this hill, and I'll probably never get
up this hill. More of a life affirmation situation. You know,
(16:15):
I'm looking here, I've been running up this hill, running
up this hill? What is it? Kate Bush on that
one in your eighties and twenty twenties movie or music
reference for this segment of the radio program, A song
from Kate Bush came out in the eighties and got
repopular a couple of years ago thanks to stranger things.
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So I've been running up that hill and I can't
make it, So I'm just gonna park my car here
and walk away forever. Yes, if that's the case, you've
now illegally parked your car on Dodge Street, which you
can't do. You will be towed. But the fact that
people saw that quote and they're like, I can't believe
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that she's sitting there in her ivory tower, probably out
of town somewhere, which is another thing that Mike McDonald
insinuated incorrectly and had this let them eat cake moment.
You know you're you're gonna be towed end of story.
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It's amazing what people will believe. Well, it was right
there with the I mean even my wife said, well,
how did they do that? With the TV graphics? Like,
it's super easy. Could grab my teenage son and say, here,
make make one of these, put your mom's picture on here,
and attribute a quote to her. Because I didn't do that.
(17:42):
I didn't want to see what my son would come
up with. But it's actually very very easy story. We
talked about on Friday out of the Bennington area. This
is up on Highway thirty six, near like one hundred
and thirty second Street, and it was really weird, and
we talked about it on Friday, and then it just
got weirder. Here was the weird part of the story.
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There was a couple was driving up there. They come
over a hill at night on Highway thirty six and
they see a big honk of something right there in
the middle of the road. They swerve to avoid it,
end up in the ditch. Thankfully, they're okay. They see
a car kind of park nearby, lights on, and the
(18:26):
guy's like, hey, you guys, okay, saw what happened. I
already called the authorities. They're on their way. You want
to get in my car and you need to ride anywhere,
And they're like, we're okay. So they're talking about that,
and then they are talking to the authorities and the
authorities say wait, because then the guy takes off. The
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authorities say, wait a second. You said there was a
guy kind of stationed here nearby and he offered to
help you immediately. It's funny because there have been a
few other people here in this same area who reported
have to swerve to or they actually hit something in
the middle of the road. One of them was like,
kids bike and they get out and there's a guy
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park nearby. Hey, you okay, And so people are like,
this guy is intentionally leaving junk in the road just
to watch people hit it, and then he's on the
scene for who knows what reason. Now the authority said, now,
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we don't know that something about this particular road and
all the big hunks of junk in the road. It
should be noted that this is on the way to
the landfill. Could be things are just falling out of trucks,
so let's not jump to conclusions. That was the weird
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that we talked about on Friday. Here's where it got
weird er. The story from WOWT First Alert six I
mentioned that the story started with a couple that was
driving They found a big hunk of something in the road,
swerved to avoid it. They said, the guy was there
and all that. So the guy's name was listed in
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the news story first and last name. His first name
is Garrison. So Garrison talks to First Alert six they
print his name in the story. Now, since Friday, WWT
has received three voicemails, Hello, this is Garrison. I would
(20:33):
like this news article about this accident to be removed. Please,
I don't want my name listed with this story. Please
take this story down. This is Garrison. So News reached
out to Garrison said here's the voicemail we received. Garrison says,
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that's not me, that's not my voice. But I tell
you who that sounds like. Sounds like the guy who
was hanging out there offering to help us after we
or swerve to avoid hitting this big honk of metal
in the road. And then they reached out to another guy.
This guy's name is Kyle, he's the one who hit
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the kid's bicycle, and the guy was nearby played the
voicemail for him. He goes, yeah, that definitely sounds like
the same person who pulled up behind me after I
hit the bike in the road. Now, it should also
be noted the Douglas County Sheriff's office is looking into this,
and they said, we have a person of interest that
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we have a beat on. But it also should be
noted that it's not against the law to call the
TV station and say, yeah, this is me, take that
news story down with me, and it's not you. Now,
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if he calls the sheriff's office and says that is
a crime, but calling Mike McKnight and saying that not
a crime, you can call Mike McKnight tell him anything
you want. You can lie to Brian Mastery and John
Nicely all day and a lot of the people that
play golf against John Nicely have to lie about their
score in order to beat him. That's not against the law.
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It's a higher moral code, certainly, but it's not against
the law. So right now, we got a bunch of
weirdness out there, but we have zero evidence that any
crime has been committed. How weird is all this? Now
here's another layer of weird. Lucy, You've been a part
of kfab's morning news today hearing Gary and Jim say
(22:42):
that our phones were broken. They couldn't get anyone on
the So I'm sitting here in the phone rings like, well,
let's see if our phones work. And it's a guy
named Bruce that said I hit something out there around Bennington,
So let's see if our phones are working. Hello, Bruce,
You're on news radio eleven ten KFAB. Scott Vorhee is
good morning.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Hi Scott.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
It looks like they're working, you know what, the wonders
of modern technology.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
That's exactly right. Well, a few pieces fell into place
for me while you were given that description of what
happened was. I was driving just west of the Papio
Creek on Highway thirty six, going up that hill, and
I never did see what I hit, but I hit
something that just made a horrific racket underneath my Ford
Explorer and probably helped it. You know, it's sitting up
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in the air a little bit more than a car. Yeah,
And I was trying to figure out what it was,
and I backed up to see if it made any noise,
and then I took off again, very slowly, and it
quit making a noise. So I thought, well, whatever it is,
it's gone right. And so as I'm pulling back out
on Highway thirty six, it must have been that it
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was at Jake, the other guy that you talked about.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
No, the two names we have here, a guy named
Garrison at a gun named Kyle.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Kyle is the guy must have been behind me, because
as I'm pulling out onto Highway thirty six, somebody was
pulling over behind me onto the shoulder. I was watching
him in my rearview mirror, and I thought initially it
was because he was going to stop and help me,
but he stopped quite away his back and then a
car pulled up behind him.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Ah, yeah, that sounds like I went home. Yeah, he's
describing that he hit something, pulled over, and a guy
pulled up behind him and said, why don't you sit
in my car while we're waiting for the authorities to
show up, which is really weird. So you saw that
had happened, what'd you do?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Well?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I just I went home. But the next day I
never knew what I hit. But when I went to
go to run some errands the next day, I saw
a little, tiny, one of the smallest little bicycles that
they make, sitting on the side of the road. I said, well,
that's it. None of this had come out yet, so
I just thought it fell out of something on the
way to the dump.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Like they say, when did this happen?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
This happened Thursday night am when I saw the bicycle
was Friday morning.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Okay, what would you do if you pull over there, which, frankly,
it wouldn't have been a bad idea to make sure
that whatever you hit that it didn't do any damage
to your car. You weren't linking any fluids anything like that,
and some guy just pulls up behind you say hey, okay,
you wouldn't think anything of that normally, right.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Not normally?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
No, No, What does it make you think about it?
What does it make you think about this story? Now?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Well, it makes me think that, Well, there's quite a
few of us, as a small town. I'm actually from Bennington,
but I live in Washington, and there's quite a few
of us have a pretty good idea who it.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Was without knowing. Yeah, first of all, I'm sure I'm
getting emails right now going this has got to be
the guy. So there are probably people listening right now
think it's you. Who's weird guy out there? Is it you?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Well, well, Kyle, Kyle can tell you that there was
a truck in front of him that pulled out. I mean,
I've got a verification. I mean he had to have
seen me.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Okay, so let's just say, let's just say it's not you.
I'm going to take your word for it here without
without naming the individual that everyone's keying in on here,
what can you tell me about that person?
Speaker 4 (26:24):
He is? He's not he's really smart, but he's socially awkward, okay,
and he's been accused of a few other things. We'll
just put it that way. And and when my cousin
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played your tape of the guy or the Channel six
tape of the guy calling in, and we both said, well,
that's him.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
That's him. Yeah. Oh, I didn't realize they had his
voice on the TV report. That's what I get for
being a reader. Yeah. Interesting. Okay, So right now, we
don't have anything that is obvious that a crime has
been committed. So what do you think authorities in your
community should do?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
You No, what I'm going to say, I don't know. Yeah,
you know, nobody got hurt, and you know, something should
be done to make it at least inconvenient for him
if they figure out who it is, all.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Right, I mean, if he's intentionally putting stuff on the
road and vehicles have been damaged.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
And that's he's the kind of guy that would.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, well you wonder if he's the kind of guy
who if authorities talk to him, if he might break
After a couple of minutes ago, it was me I
put all that stuff out there.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
No, we both agreed that he would never do that.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Oh, interesting, interesting little twist. But yeah, yeah, all right, Hey, Bruce,
thanks a lot for calling. I appreciate hearing from you. Okay,
thank you, and I'm glad our phones work here on
news radio eleven to ten kfa B. I'll relay that
information to the rest of the team here.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I'm sorry, but that's just more weirdness. How so that
he said he would never do that, that.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
He would never admit to doing it. Let's clarify that.
I said, I said, you know, do you think he's
the kind of guy who police say, look, we know
you did it, all right, I did it. You know
he would break and admit all of this. Okay, he said, no, No,
we think he's the kind of guy who would never
do that, meaning he would never admit to it. An
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important clarification, thank you. Lucy's potential weirdo of putting stuff
in the road there just to watch people hit it,
he doesn't. And this is the other thing. The sheriff's
deputies there say, we don't get the impression that he's
like wanting to abduct or kill anyone or anything like that.
He just kind of enjoys watching people get mildly inconvenienced
(28:56):
and maybe be there to help, Like maybe he's got
like a hero complex. Oh I saw you just hit
that bucket I put in the road. Are you okay? Yeah,
I'm fine. It's a bucket. Okay. Well, if you need anything,
I'm here. Are you humming the Indiana Jones?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
So we have weirdos in our midst you know that, right.
Don't look at me like that this guy.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I am well aware of weirdos in our mids.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I read the sign like this guy who just got sentenced.
He is from Ireton, Iowa. Was a passenger almost exactly
a year ago, about a year ago on a Delta
Airlines flight that left from Omaha heading to LaGuardia. Shortly
after the aircraft's external doors were closed following boarding, as
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the plane was taxing toward the runway, this guy named
Wesley began yelling God is real and then fighting fellow passengers. Now,
obviously this is someone from my church. This is the
reason why church going has been up in my particular parish.
(30:15):
Our pastor loves yelling God is real and then just
going from pew to pew, just knocking fools out. It's fun,
and he invites parishioners to take a shot at him.
I tell you what, it's a lot of fun. We're
installing top ropes. It's great. Some people thought this was weird.
I don't. I mean, we hand out snakes, we punched
the pastor, we yell God is reel. It is actually
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the kids love it. Yes, I'm lying about all of that.
I have to say things like that. People like I
heard that on the AM radio. It must be true. Yes,
sometimes it is. So. This guy is yelling God is Real,
starts chattering about demons and then tries to open the
cabin door and then starts fighting with passengers. God is Real, Real,
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confused as to what happened with the life that was
breathed into you. And then there's this guy Hartford, Connecticut.
The guy is going one hundred miles per hour along
I ninety one on Friday morning. When the state troopers said,
that's too fast. What's the speed limit here? Is it
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one hundred and No, it's about half that, all right?
Get him? So they try and pull him over. He
refuses to stop. He's just flying down the interstate emergency
lights going behind him. He won't stop. In the interest
of public safety, state troopers gave up Chase, but they
had the license plate number. Contacted the family and they said, yeah,
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we think we know who this is. The registered owner
no longer resides here, but you might want to check
over here. They go over there, they see the vehicle,
They knock on the door. The driver answers, and they said,
you know, we're trying to stop you. He's like, yeah,
I know, but I didn't stop because I've never been
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pulled over before, and I'm frightened of tractor trailers on
the highway. I'm afraid I'm gonna pull off the side
of the road and one of those eighteen wheelers is
going to hit me. So instead, I just decided to
go one hundred miles per hour, weaving in and out
of traffic. Authorities say, well, that's interesting. We think maybe
you didn't stop because your license has been suspended. What
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he admitted that maybe that was also the reason he's
got a battery of charges against him. I didn't know
longtime Omaha public servant and businessman Mark Kraft, but I
certainly know of him, not just from his years on
the Omaha City Council, which was during a time when
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I didn't live in Omaha, not very much. I think
maybe he started here when I was Yeah, he would
have been on the council when I still lived here.
Was working at a couple other radio stations way back when,
but mostly I was either away at college or moving
down to Kansas City, and so I didn't get a
chance to grill him mercilessly on the radio as a
member of the council. As a member of the Douglas
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County Commission. I did look and see where I had
sent him a couple of messages and said, Hey, Mark,
you're getting torn apart on the radio this morning. Do
you want to come on here and set the record straight?
You want to talk in the radio. I'm on until
eleven and no response. And then I sent a message
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and I'm also on tomorrow morning from nine to eleven.
No response. I don't remember what the issue was, but
with the Douglas County Commission, could have been anything. So
I didn't know Mark. I know he ran a furniture
store downtown. I loved hearing Terry Lahy and a KFAB
news update saying the Terry said, I can still hear
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the radio ads for that company saying we'd down on
town and we love it. Or something to that effect.
My apologies if I screwed up the slogan. But there
was another thing about Mark Kraft, who passed away over
the weekend at the age of seventy seven. There was
another thing about Mark Craft that caused me to have
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to do a little bit of action this morning. And
I hope this doesn't sound insensitive. In fact, I do
this so as not to be insensitive. At some point,
Mark Kraft friended me on Facebook. I don't know why.
The only interaction there would have been me wishing him
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a happy birthday and the aforementioned messages of trying to
get him on the radio at some point, so I
at some point he wanted to see what all the
fuss was about. I don't know. So I know we
are Facebook friends. I recognized him being a Facebook friend,
and upon hearing his passing this morning, and again I
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hope this doesn't sound insensitive, but I went on Facebook
and unfriended him. And the reason why is not because
like he's of no use to me anymore. That's not
anything like that. It's sometimes because I love going on
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every day and telling my Facebook friends happy birthday, especially
if it is in fact their birthday. So I'll jump
on there and it'll pop up there, and sometimes I
admit I'm doing it a little quickly and I might
not immediately recognize. And I've had to catch myself a
couple of times with people I do know who just
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because you die doesn't mean that you get unfriended on Facebook.
There's some I mean, I can't if there are some
people on there who we're longtime friends of mine, were
family members, and I don't bounce them because they die,
because I like the annual reminder, at least of about
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their lives. And I'll instead of saying happy birthday, instead
I'll say thinking of you on your birthday, and I am,
and I take that moment to pause and remember now
for someone who I don't know. Sometimes people friend me
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on Facebook and I don't know them.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
You just right still don't know you, and i'd know and.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I don't know that they've died, and so it could
be that they've been gone for five months and then
the family and friends see an insensitive post from me
saying happy birthday, and then they sometimes they'll send a
message that's like I don't know if you know this,
but and so a few times they get mad.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
How dare you they get mad?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Oh, that's why I quit doing it unless I know them.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, well, I remember one of them, the angry ones,
came to both of us because we both did a
happy birthday message, and that person sent both of us
a message.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I must have blocked it out.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
I remember, hurt me and I said, I responded to
the person. I said, I have an interesting and weird
job and there and because of it, sometimes I don't
know the people I'm connected to on Facebook. I'm sorry
I didn't get a chance to know that person. But
I presume that they friended me because they maybe kind
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of sort of liked the radio station and me being
a part of it. And I'm sorry I didn't get
a chance to know them. Please don't take offense that
kind of thing. Well, I saw. I don't like it.
It's just it's just awkward for everyone. If you've got
a loved one and you see someone who clearly does
not friends with them, it's like, hey, happy birthday, hope
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you have a great day, Like that person's been dead
for eight months.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
You pick, yeah, but how do you know it's not
the best birthday that they've ever had? Living with Jesus.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Could be well, yeah, it certainly could be living with
Jesus great. Yeah, I mean that that birthday when you
got a bike, or maybe you turn sixteen, they hand
you the keys to your brand new fierro, you know whatever.
That was probably all right too. But Jesus is great,
not a fiero. But I'm kidding, I'm kidding. He has
a sense of humor. Everyone calmed down. So I'll also
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tell the person when they send me a message and
say you wish Betsy a happy birthday. She did like,
all right, So I hope you don't mind, but I'm
gonna unfriend her so I don't make the same mistake
next year because I don't know her and I'm probably
gonna forget by next year. So so I hear that
Mark Craft had passed away, and I thought I'll probably remember,
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but I don't. I didn't. I unfortunately didn't know the man,
so I went on to unfriend him so as not
to uncringly or just not thinking wish him a happy
birthday at some point. Why am I telling you all
of this? Number one kill time Number two? No, I'm kidding.
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I noticed when I went on his page to unfriend him.
There was a post from him from seventeen hours ago
and it's a picture of Mark Craft and it says
Mark Craft, and it says I passed away Saturday night,
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and then he goes on to talk about with family
by his side throughout my life. I felt incredibly fortunate.
But this and that and all that, and I was
at odds man. On one hand, obviously he knew that,
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as we all do. We all know that at some
point our life has an expiration date. Sometimes you're given,
I think, the blessing to know that that expiration date
is any minute now, and and and sometimes you get
some days, maybe weeks, and you don't you know, you can,
you can really tell everyone what you think of them,
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and hopefully that's a nice thing for everybody, you know.
So I think it's I think it's clear that he
knew and wanted this message to be out, and he
wanted it to come from him, and I think that's
very sweet. It's also a little weird.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
I'm glad you brought that up, because I did. I
saw the exact same thing and I had to look
at it twice thought wait what, wait what?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
It's also a little weird, right, It's a.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Little bit weird, but I really kind of like it. Yeah,
I know, and I think if I have knowledge of
my pending, I went on with Jesus, Yeah, I think
I'll do it. I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
I think I would too. But I mean, if you
have an opportunity, and I think Facebook lets you do
this for a regular page. I used to be that
you could because we would do this on Kfab's Facebook page,
but before that turned into a veritable wasteland. I didn't
say that. I'll never admit to say that, but you
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could schedule post in advance, and I don't know if
you can do that for a personal page. I've never
thought to do it. But if I knew that I
was not long for this world, I think I would
probably spend my remaining hours just scheduling a lot of
Facebook posts and advance.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Oh, you wouldn't stop it, just no, Now, that isn't
greatful idea.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
For months and years like there'd be like in the
first few days, it'd be a flurry of message is,
including certainly one about a week or so later it says,
let me out, it's.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Cold and dark down in here, something wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (42:10):
And and then there'd be someone's like there'd be one,
you know, from five years from now going, yeah, I
didn't think that Trump was gonna leave office, you know whatever.
I mean just all kinds of Basically, I try and
position myself as Nostra Dome, like what does nostra Scott
misthink that it's going to happen here? And and that's
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that's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Well, who knows, maybe he did that too. We'll have
to watch that Facebook.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
And what's probably gonna happen is I'm not gonna have
any idea and I'm my Facebook will go on, which
I think is what the Seline Dion song was trying
to say. You know the song my Life Will go On? Right,
it's not.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
It heart heart, my heart will go on?
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Oh? Is it my heart will go on?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Oh yeah, mis Hurdler like, it's not by heart.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
It's by lean Deon? Is it by heart? Sorry? My
heart will go on? It was really about the beating
heart of your Facebook page that continues after you die.
I mean, unless someone has access to it, it doesn't
continue with posts, but it's still there, and I I
guess I'm fine with that, because what the heck am
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I going to care but right.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
I mean some people you can set up an advance,
like if I die, this person can have access to
my page and they can go in there and shut
it down or whatever. Like what in the world am
I going to care? That'll be like thirteenth on my
list of concerns after I die.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
I just thought of a new business taking over the
pages of people who have passed, yeah, and kind of
going along with their same kind of personality.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
That would mean that you would have access to their
page while they're still alive, and that could create problems.
That would create problems. So I don't know, I but
I thought that that. I thought that was sweet that Markkraft,
longtime Omaha public servant, City Council, County Commission, business owner,
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Central High School Foundation. Let's see what says a memorial
post on the Central High School Foundation. Yeah, he graduated
at some point, I think, Well, this says a memorial
post on the Central High School Foundation website noted that
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he graduated from Creighton All right, So anyway, I thought
it was a sweet thing. But if I I'll say,
I'll do I'll tell you this. If I die and
I'm still posting on Facebook, I'm not dead, Keep Hillary
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and away from me.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
Scott Bodies were you know it?
Speaker 1 (45:02):
News Radio elevenfab my daily dispatch from the satirical news
website The Babylon b The headline here on this fake
news website. Family enjoying annual holiday tradition called everyone gets
Everyone gets violently ill and takes turns annihilating the bathroom.
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Oh ho ho. You ever had a Christmas like that
where everyone got sick?
Speaker 2 (45:31):
I no, but it would be my last. Oh at
who's ever hosting that one?
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Great Ben Kansas. Everyone in the house and we were
all staying in the house. This was my wife's grandma
and Grandpa's house and Great Ben Kansas And it was
a wonderful holiday experience until something tore through the house
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and we all thought, wouldn't it be great if we
all stayed at the house? People are sleeping on the floor,
you know, it's it's one of those kind of deals.
You're thinking, Oh, they must have a big house. No, oh,
there might. There must have been only a few of
you there also. No, it was just like it is
like house cats just strewn about everywhere, And somehow we
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managed to all get sick, but not all of us.
There were two people in the house who didn't get sick,
my father in law and me. Now what caused us
not to get as sick as everyone else in that house.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
It wasn't something that you all arrest everybody ate.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
No, it wasn't that, okay, but it was We still
we still feel to this day that there was There
was only one thing that set my father in law
and me apart from everyone else in the house. My
wife's brother came up from Albuquerque with a special gift
for anyone who wanted it, green wine. It was terrible.
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It's just as bad as you think it is. Just
it's just like like you take all the spice and
and add like a really awful kind of an alcoholic
flavor to it and just drink it. You're not pouring
it over anything like a nice sauce. I like a
nice green chili sauce. But in Albuquerque, you don't eat
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anything without either green or red chili. So he thought
it'd be funny to bring this horrible bottle of green
chili wine to the holiday festivities. What's funny about that
is you're like, well, wait a second, how come he
got sick? Oh? Because my brother in law doesn't drink.
He just brought the beverage for anyone who wanted it.
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My father in law said, this actually is pretty good.
And then, being the new guy, we were freshly married,
I think at this time, being the new guy, still
being tested by my older brother in law, are you
gonna have any I said I really don't, and he's like, oh,
you don't want, fine, give me a glass. And then
I acted like I liked it and had probably a
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big glass and maybe two glasses of it, and my
father in law is now, I guess, trying to match me,
and we're drinking all this green chili wine. It was terrible.
But later that night and throughout the next day, everyone
got so sick except me and my father in law.
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And we still say it's the green chili wine. It's
medicinal killed whatever bacterial or virus infection.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
I can see that happening, actually, but.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
That virus showed up in my system and said what
is this? Did he just drink kerosene? We're out and left?
Speaker 2 (48:54):
How fast did that hit everybody?
Speaker 1 (48:58):
In the span of about a day and a half.
Oh yeah. And then and actually late the next day
there was still a couple of people still standing and
they succumbed to it the next day. Okay, so in
the course of the next couple.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
Of days it was a neurovirus type.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
Probably, Yeah, something like that. Yeah, it was pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
Yeah, that's never happened to me.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
Yeah, so that that headline.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
I'm not saying at a hostel, though it hits home.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Yeah, family enjoying annual holiday tradition called everyone gets violently
ill and takes turns annihilating the bathroom. Ho ho ho.
What do we think of this one? This is from
the State Department of Motor Vehicles. The Nebraska DMV just
announced yesterday that starting January first, annual registration fees for
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electric vehicles will double from seventy five dollars to one
hundred and fifty dollars. One hundred and fifty dollars a month,
no a day, no a year. Yeah. Early expense of
one hundred and fifty dollars had been seventy five. Now
it's one fifty.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
And they still have to pay a wheel tax.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
And well for Omaha, Yeah, the state DMV has nothing
to do with them. If you're you know, in the
Omaha area, Yeah, you still got to pay wheel tax
that goes towards maintenance of the roads and so forth.
And yeah, you drive on the roads, so we got
to charge of the wheel tax. But a lot of
the road maintenance comes from people who buy gas because
on every gallon of gas, if you're paying two dollars
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and a gallon of gas, well let us know where
you're getting that. But just to you know, for round numbers,
if the gallon of gas costs you two dollars, I
think it's three dollars of that as all taxes. Yes,
I said it that way on purpose. Anyway, it's a
lot of taxes, and some of that goes to some
road maintenance and so forth. And the argument has been,
wait a second, these people with their evs are driving
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on our roads and they're they're causing just as much
down to the road. Some of these evs actually cost
a lot more. They're doing more damn much of the roads,
and they're not paying for the maintenance of the roads
because they're not buying gasoline. And so the options were
charge them this yearly expense of a registration fee, an
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annual registration fee. Well it's not a registration fee. Yeah,
I mean you got to pay for a registration in
your vehicle every year is stupid. So we either do
that or we individually ring their necks. And it was
decided constitutionally and also financially that the annual registration doubling
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of that fee would do better. You can't fund road
maintenance by neck ringing. No one's paying you for that.
You're not extracting any money, as as great as it
might be to actually ring someone's neck. But I here's
where you might be surprised. Not only do I not
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support any neck ringing in this instance, I don't support
the doubling of this annual registration fee just for electric vehicles.
And they say this is for anyone who drives any
kind of plug in hybrid cars, trucks, motorcycles. If you
have a registered EV or plug in hybrid, your annual
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registration fee will double from seventy five to one hundred
and fifty dollars. I disagree with people who drive a
certain type of vehicle being targeted in this way.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
I wonder if it has something to do with recycling
the battery, because that's got to be expensive. But if
that's on you, it wouldn't be on these states.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
Yeah, it wouldn't come from the Nebraska DMV. I would
think that there would be. As you like, if I
don't pay an annual registration on my old Cathode ray
tube TV, then I still have but when I go
to recycle it, I have to pay for the recycling
of it, and I can't just throw it away in
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the trash. No, I don't still have an old tube TV.
We got rid of that days ago, and I forgot
it was actually a few years ago. We had one
more big old as Lucy used to call them, the
j Loo TVs, because I had it.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
I can't say that anymore. So we need to stop
saying that, because it's no longer politically correct, all right.
Speaker 1 (53:30):
Lucy never said this. I used to say it. She
used to chastise me by calling those old TVs j
Loo TVs because they had a big, old backhand on them.
I can't believe that someone thought that you used to
say that.
Speaker 2 (53:44):
I would have said, Kardashian, Right.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
Yeah, I know that's probably the update here. But but
you know, if you buy an EV, it's to save money,
and people are like, well, we can't pay for the
roads if these guys aren't buying guests well, hey, mind
your business. These guys figured something out. What about those
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who ride their bikes or jog on the roads. They're
transporting themselves and they're not paying a wheel time.
Speaker 2 (54:14):
Not yet, not yet, they do as much damage to
the roads and pedestrian over there, right, they don't.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Do as much damage to the roads. The weather does
a bunch of damage to the roads. We've got one
bridge down on South l Street that you can literally
stand underneath it, look up and see the sky through
the bridge, and they're not fixing that.
Speaker 2 (54:36):
I've got one better, but they are fixing it. Did
you see the Fork Road bridge? It dropped seven inches?
Speaker 1 (54:43):
It did.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
That's what the report I read said. It's closed.
Speaker 1 (54:48):
Really, Oh, I you know, I did see that. I
didn't know it was because of some shrinkage. I don't bridge.
Speaker 2 (54:54):
I don't know what caused it. I don't know what
part fell seven inches. I don't know. But it's closed
and yeah, they're.
Speaker 1 (54:59):
Fixed, all right.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
So we need money from the Fort Kirk Road bridge.
Speaker 1 (55:04):
If the argument is that our roads and bridges are
in disrepair and they're all crumbling, and the bridges are
all gonna fall down like London bridges, how in the world.
Are how many people drive evs in the state? You know,
we double the annual registration fee and get an extra
seventy five dollars out of them. Is that Is that
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going towards roads and bridges? Or is it going towards
paying pensions and inflated healthcare costs and staffing fees and
a bunch of other stuff. Does that any of its
actually go to the roads and bridges? Because we got
a lot of people driving on these roads. They're driving
regular gas powered vehicles, And I don't see where all
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of the people what percentage of drivers on the roads
across Nebraska right now, do you think you're driving gas
powered vehicles upwards of ninety seven percent?
Speaker 2 (55:57):
Ninety nine you think it's ninety ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
I'll meet you halfway, like Kenny Loggins. Ninety eight percent
of these drivers are out there driving the gas powered vehicles,
and somehow we're not squeezing enough money out of them,
slash us to fix all the rows and bridges. But
you take the small number of people to drive these
evs and you get an extra seventy five bucks a
year out of them. How in the world is that
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is that? You're telling me. You know, we were gonna
fix that bridge in Bellevue, but we we ran the
math and we were seventy five dollars short, wouldn't you
know it, so we couldn't do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (56:35):
That's a dollar an inch, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (56:37):
This is dumb, right, this is this is just like, Hey,
those guys buy those those evs and you know they
can afford them. They're probably upwards of sixty seventy thousand dollars.
They can afford an extra seventy five bucks. Take it.
I want a full review of their finances. They're the
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old Roads and Bridge Department. Show me that this extra
money is going to do things that we can't figure
out how we can do them. Now, how much more
money are we bringing in? It just seems like this
is just a ah, stick it to those rich people.
They got those EV's, Yeah they don't you know, they're
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not paying for gas. Get seventy five bucks out of them.
Did you disagree with me at the start of this,
and now you kind of see where I'm coming from?
Speaker 2 (57:33):
No, why I agree with you. I agreed with you
from the first, But I still think that's you're only
talking about seven people.
Speaker 1 (57:39):
Yeah, we're not. They're more. I mean, you see a
lot of evs. I see more than seven of those
weird and beautiful and ugly Tesla Suv trucks.
Speaker 2 (57:49):
Oh I forgot that those Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (57:52):
Saw one the other day that was red, like the
bottom half of it was red and then the top
hat was the silver. It was silver.
Speaker 2 (57:58):
Just half was silver, like a can or a pan.
And I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (58:03):
It's like a DeLorean had a relationship, an unholy union
with one of those old Aztech SUVs that was all
jagged or like a what was an Azuzu Trooper? Was
that the rodeo? The Azuzu Rodeo have a big boxy
and have a jagged looking thing, and somehow DeLorean got
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hammered and got into it with a an old Azuzu Rodeo.
Speaker 2 (58:28):
I understand. It was chili vodka.
Speaker 1 (58:31):
Yeah, and then the little too much chili wine where
a green chili wine. Next thing, you know, you and
an old as Tech are making this Tesla Suv. Which
part of me are like, that's super cool, and the
other part it's like, does look like those stupid sunglasses
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that like bodybuilders wore back in the eighties. Its weird.
Just the kind of boxy silver reflective sunglasses. There's a
name for.
Speaker 2 (59:03):
Him, horn glasses Aviator.
Speaker 1 (59:09):
No, not the Aviator. No, these are the ones that
are more like rectangular and boxy, and you're I'll figure it.
Speaker 3 (59:16):
Out, Scotties smoothe radio elevens kfab.
Speaker 1 (59:22):
Those sunglasses I talked about, like these reflective, square, rectangular
kind of looking sunglasses don't seem to have a name,
but I typed in square reflective sunglasses and came up
with several images of exactly what I was thinking of,
like the old like body builder kind of shades, almost
like PC Principle from South Park. That's what those Tesla
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SUVs remind me of.
Speaker 2 (59:48):
Not very much though, if it took you that long
to find it.
Speaker 1 (59:51):
No, I just thought those sunglasses had a name like aviator,
blue Blocker or something like that. They don't. They're just
they're just sunglasses. Do you want to talk more about this,
the glasses.
Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
Or the cars. I'm going to go with no, neither,
all right.
Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
Did you know there was a study recently where they said,
like we told people throw away your black plastic utensils
like a black spatula, because these spatula they said, they're
absorbing like the black plastic is when when you when
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it gets hot, it's releasing all of these toxins and
so forth, and it's getting on your food and it's dangerous.
Did you even hear about this?
Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
I believe it's been debunked.
Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
It has now, But what But my first concern is
apparently there was a study the researcher is a toxic
free future. We're calculating how much toxic flame of the
toxic flame retardant coding on black utensil like a black spatula,
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how much might be coming off on your food or
you're then being absorbed into your body and it's all
the black plastic made from recycled electronics. I don't know
who's doing what to give me a spatula. I didn't
know that there was a study that said these things
might kill you. But now they're saying, hey about that study.
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We screwed up. They said, we think that we made
a mathematical error in the calculation. I didn't know whatte that.
They didn't realize they had radio people doing the math
on this one. So they said, look, sorry if you
threw away any of your black plastic utensils that may
(01:01:50):
have been unnecessary. We still think that there's concern, but
we have no mathematical basis for telling you.
Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
I would question that research because what I understood it
to be is the material that it was made from,
not whether it was flammable or not, but that they
were not no longer using that material to make the
black utensive, so theoretically you could still have some in
your house.
Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
They said there was a typo and a mathematical error.
Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Did this come from the government, No, it.
Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
Came from the guys from office space. They put the
Decimo in the wrong place.
Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
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