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Don Bacon at the White House? · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Jean Stothert. Peyton Heilach, my producer,
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  Speaker 1: is also here. Good morning, Peyton.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Jean. Happy Monday.
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  Speaker 1: And it is officially a bad hair day for Jean.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: It's pouring. It's windy. It's going to be humid. And
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be hot later on today. It's got
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  Speaker 1: all the bad things going.
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  Speaker 3: What happened to that assistant that you had that always
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  Speaker 3: followed you around with an umbrella?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 2: Did you ax him?
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  Speaker 1: That never happened with me. Never, ever, ever. And it
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  Speaker 1: was obvious. People used to say, does somebody do your
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  Speaker 1: hair and your makeup? And I'm like, look at me.
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  Speaker 1: Does it look like somebody does my hair and my makeup? No.
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  Speaker 1: But it is going to be a weird day. It
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  Speaker 1: is raining now. It's going to get windier and it's
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  Speaker 1: going to get more humid. And Peyton looks like he's
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  Speaker 1: dressed for winter right here. You have to peel that
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  Speaker 1: sweater off pretty soon.
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  Speaker 2: I got my sweater on, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But we want to hear from you today. We want
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  Speaker 1: to get your feedback and hear your comments, concerns, questions, complaints,
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  Speaker 1: really anything goes, city, state, national, the world. We've got
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  Speaker 1: so much we could be talking about, and we're willing
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  Speaker 1: to do it. So, of course, you're going to hear
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  Speaker 1: plenty of opinions from me too, but it is your
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  Speaker 1: on the talkback mic, and we may just play it
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  Speaker 1: on the air. But we are very happy that you
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  Speaker 1: are with us today. How was your weekend, Peyton? I
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  Speaker 1: had a pretty good weekend. I am in the age
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  Speaker 1: of the weddings. So I had a wedding this weekend
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  Speaker 1: for a friend. All your friends are getting married. My
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  Speaker 1: wife was a bridesmaid, so it's always a good time.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of fun. And she won't be able to say,
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  Speaker 1: always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Because she was just— Cross that one off. Guess what
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  Speaker 1: I did last night? I went to Kobe Steakhouse for
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  Speaker 1: my grandson Raymond's ninth birthday. I went to the party
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday at Moylan Ice Rink with a thousand little
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  Speaker 1: kids skating on the ice.
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  Speaker 2: Did you throw any skates on?
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  Speaker 5: No. No.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, my daughter said, Mom, here, put some skates on.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, forget it. They have some walkers that.
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  Speaker 2: You can use.
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  Speaker 1: You can scoot around. I would have pushed those little
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  Speaker 1: things around. But I can't believe little kids. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these kids that are between, well, one of my grandsons
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  Speaker 1: is six. That's Max. And Ray is nine. Man, they
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  Speaker 1: just go out there and go for it. And they're
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  Speaker 1: fast and they're fearless because when they fall, they don't
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  Speaker 1: have far to fall. They just fall and get right
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  Speaker 1: back up again. But it was fun. But guess who
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  Speaker 1: caught a shrimp at Kobe Steakhouse in their mouth on
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  Speaker 1: the first try last night?
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  Speaker 2: Your husband, Kevin?
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  Speaker 4: Me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I did.
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  Speaker 2: On your first try?
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  Speaker 1: On my first try, and Raymond got one too. So
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  Speaker 1: we felt really, really special last night about that. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't leave with pieces of shrimp all over us like
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  Speaker 1: you usually do there. But that's always a fun place
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  Speaker 1: to go to. Now let's get to the serious stuff.
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  Speaker 1: This is really interesting. There was a story that came out.
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  Speaker 1: This past weekend on PBS, Nebraska Public Media, and the
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  Speaker 1: caption was, Nebraska Representative Don Bacon considering a 2028 presidential run.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm just going to read a little if
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  Speaker 1: you haven't heard about it. It said, when asked by
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  Speaker 1: the podcast host, this is an episode on PBS, if
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  Speaker 1: he is considering running for office, the Nebraska politician replied,
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  Speaker 1: I won't lie. Yes, I would love to. but I
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  Speaker 1: would also just be happy to be the right-hand or
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  Speaker 1: the left-hand man of someone else who has the same values.
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  Speaker 1: Bacon went on to reference instances in previous Republican administrations
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  Speaker 1: that showed bipartisanship. He said, but in the end, I
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  Speaker 1: want our values to dominate our party, and I think
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  Speaker 1: our country needs people who are not using the FBI,
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  Speaker 1: the IRS, going through their adversaries, I can't even talk
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  Speaker 1: this morning. adversaries, or the Attorney General. We want people
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  Speaker 1: to be respectful. I like that Ronald Reagan had Tip
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  Speaker 1: O'Neill at the White House at times and had a
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  Speaker 1: glass of scotch, right? I think we need leadership that
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  Speaker 1: stands as an example of decent humanity and represents Christian values.
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  Speaker 1: And then he went on to say there's a part
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  Speaker 1: of him that wants to step out and take that risk,
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  Speaker 1: but he would also be interested in supporting another candidate.
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  Speaker 1: But he said, I definitely want to be on a
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  Speaker 1: team that are part of the team fighting for our
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  Speaker 1: values in our country because I think the United States
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  Speaker 1: needs them and I think the United States is looking
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  Speaker 1: for them. And so that came out. I was able
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  Speaker 1: to get a hold of Congressman Bacon last evening. And
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  Speaker 1: he said he just got back from the Ukraine. He
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  Speaker 1: was on a trip there. And he did tell me
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  Speaker 1: basically the same thing. He said, I want to advocate
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  Speaker 1: for bipartisan solutions for the debt and immigration. Stop using
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ. to go after our enemies, stop using public
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  Speaker 1: office to enrich one's family, and restore alliances. I prefer
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  Speaker 1: to help someone else do this, but I do see
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  Speaker 1: a need for the country. So I did ask Congressman Bacon,
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  Speaker 1: this was a conversation between me and him, and he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mind me saying this, if he would come on
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  Speaker 1: the show and talk about it today, but he was
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  Speaker 1: on his way to the airport today. to be traveling
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  Speaker 1: back to D.C., and he said he would be more
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  Speaker 1: than willing to come on sometime this week and talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. So what do you all think about that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think what he is trying to say
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  Speaker 1: is we have gone astray from our values, what our
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  Speaker 1: values have been, both Republican and Democrat, and that he
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  Speaker 1: sees a need in this country because of that movement
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  Speaker 1: for new leadership. And I think he is saying he
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  Speaker 1: would rather find another candidate that would do that, that
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  Speaker 1: he could work with and help accomplish that. But he
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  Speaker 1: is saying he is not saying no to the possibility
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  Speaker 1: of him doing it himself. What do you think about that? Now,
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  Speaker 1: when he did say that he didn't want to run
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  Speaker 1: for Congress anymore and he wasn't going to run for Congress,
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  Speaker 1: I know people will come right back and start handing
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  Speaker 1: it to him. and start saying, you know, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: you said you wanted to get out of politics. But
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  Speaker 1: I think even though I think he wants to get
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  Speaker 1: out of being in the House of Representatives, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: But I think he is also thinking about he's relatively young,
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  Speaker 1: of what he could do to continue serving. And I
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  Speaker 1: think he has a good grasp on what he thinks
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  Speaker 1: our country needs. When he brought up Ronald Reagan and
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  Speaker 1: Tip O'Neill, for example, if you remember that, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: when Ronald Reagan, Republican, was president, Tip O'Neill was Speaker
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  Speaker 1: of the House, Democrat. They used to fight all the time.
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  Speaker 1: They were always arguing. They were always fighting. And then
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  Speaker 1: they would sit down and go out to lunch and
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  Speaker 1: have a glass of wine. So I think what he
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  Speaker 1: is trying to say is, yes, you can have your disagreements,
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  Speaker 1: but you could have respectful disagreements and still work together
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  Speaker 1: to achieve what we need to achieve for the people. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: the old GOP, when everybody says, I'm a Ronald Reagan Republican.
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  Speaker 1: What they are saying is what the old GOP stood for,
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  Speaker 1: and that was limited government, free market economy, strong national defense,
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  Speaker 1: traditional values, meaning pro-life and family values, and personal responsibility,
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  Speaker 1: less reliance on government programs. That's the old GOP, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what he is saying now. that we
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  Speaker 1: need to get back to. It seems like now that
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  Speaker 1: many of the Democrat socialists that are winning these primaries
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  Speaker 1: and are going to go on and be on the
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  Speaker 1: ballot in November, their main agenda is get rid of Trump,
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  Speaker 1: get rid of ICE, get rid of police, defund and
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  Speaker 1: disassemble police, open borders. That's basically what they're saying. And
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  Speaker 1: what is this going to do in the end, to
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  Speaker 1: our country. I think 9-11, the anniversary, really reminded us
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  Speaker 1: all of what we have here in this country, but
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  Speaker 1: it also reminded us all of the risk that is
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  Speaker 1: happening right now and what is going on, who is
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  Speaker 1: infiltrating this country right now, and boy, I think we
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  Speaker 1: really need to be on our toes. So what do
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  Speaker 1: you all think about that?
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  Speaker 3: We'll have to Take a listen from you, 402-558-1110. Comment
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  Speaker 3: at kfab.com. I did get an email in regards to
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  Speaker 3: this before the show, and the email says, I could
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  Speaker 3: swear Don Bacon said he was getting out of politics
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  Speaker 3: to spend.
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  Speaker 2: More time with family. Now he's considering the White House?
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  Speaker 2: What a hypocrite.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's a– I mean I don't– people
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  Speaker 1: say this all the time about candidates. They'll say– they'll
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  Speaker 1: call them flip-floppers. But there is– I don't think there's
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  Speaker 1: anything wrong no matter who you are, if you're an
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  Speaker 1: executive of a company, a CEO, a commander of an
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  Speaker 1: Air Force base or a politician. If you get more
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  Speaker 1: information and more accurate information and you study an issue
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  Speaker 1: more– and you change your mind on something, that's not
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  Speaker 1: being a hypocrite. That's saying, I have more information now,
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  Speaker 1: and it's changing my mind. I didn't know enough before.
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  Speaker 1: I think with Don Bacon, a lot of people, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he did 10 years in Congress. That is five elections.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that is pretty grueling for a two-year term.
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  Speaker 1: And in my opinion, what he was saying is, I
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  Speaker 1: think I have served Congress well. Well, I think I
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  Speaker 1: have served it as long as I can serve it
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  Speaker 1: and make a difference. And I think it's time for
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  Speaker 1: me not to run again and to allow somebody else
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  Speaker 1: to run for this CD2 position. I know he did
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  Speaker 1: say he wanted to spend more time with his family, too.
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  Speaker 1: But I think he's also a patriot, and he also
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  Speaker 1: loves this country. And I think, as I said, he
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  Speaker 1: just got back from the Ukraine yesterday. He travels all over.
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  Speaker 1: He was a brigadier general in the Air Force. He
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  Speaker 1: understands the risk that are out there in the world today.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he's a patriot. And I think what
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  Speaker 1: he is saying is if he can still help, if
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  Speaker 1: he can do something that will still help and to
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  Speaker 1: get back to our old ways of Democrats and Republicans
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  Speaker 1: working together to achieve the greater good, then he would
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  Speaker 1: be part of it.
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  Speaker 3: Something I just think about as you're telling this story
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  Speaker 3: about Don Bacon and he was running for re-election every
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  Speaker 3: two years, which meant he was pretty much campaigning all
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  Speaker 3: the time. And I think about– I'm going to use
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  Speaker 3: an athlete comparison here. You see professional athletes. They get–
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  Speaker 3: they're playing, they're playing, and they hit a point. They're like, OK,
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm ready to be done and hang it up.
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  Speaker 3: And then here we are. We're getting close to the
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  Speaker 3: time when he's going to be done and he's thinking
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  Speaker 3: to himself, Well, maybe I got a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: than I could give and that's just interesting and I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that it's hypocritical. I think that he's just–
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  Speaker 3: getting to that point now where he's going to be
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  Speaker 3: done with Congress and there might be a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more juice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, something else is calling his name out there. And
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  Speaker 1: you are so right to use that analogy of athletics
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  Speaker 1: because nobody would say that about a basketball player or
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  Speaker 1: a football player if they say, well, I'm ready to retire. Nope,
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  Speaker 1: I think I got it in me to play more.
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  Speaker 1: How many times have we heard that happen? And no
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  Speaker 1: one sits back, no fan sits back and say, well,
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  Speaker 1: you hypocrite, you said you were going to retire. They
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  Speaker 1: just don't do it. They say, yay, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: stay on and you're going to give us more of
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  Speaker 1: what you got. And maybe that's what Don is thinking.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give him more of what I got.
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  Speaker 1: I still got a lot more to give. And like
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  Speaker 1: I said, he's a relatively young guy and he's got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fire left in him too. And there
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  Speaker 1: could be a lot of issues that happened worldwide that
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  Speaker 1: he's aware of. that has changed his position on this
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  Speaker 1: or has made him think differently about this. But again,
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  Speaker 1: I did talk to him last night and this morning.
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  Speaker 1: He's in the air right now. I know that. And
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  Speaker 1: he did say that he would be more than willing
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  Speaker 1: to come on this show this week sometime. and talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. So we'll grab Don Bacon to talk to
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  Speaker 1: us about it and hopefully answer some of your questions, too.
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  Speaker 3: That will be really exciting. Gene, you're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to keep us updated on that. Now we go to
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  Speaker 3: the phone lines for George, 402-558-1110. George, you are live
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  Speaker 3: with Gene Stothert here on KFAB.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning. I just got a couple of things that
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  Speaker 5: I personally know from experience, and one was actually told
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  Speaker 5: to me by a United States senator. When Reagan and
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  Speaker 5: Tip O'Neill supposedly had this great relationship, you know, having
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  Speaker 5: drinks and everything else, they made a deal on immigration
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  Speaker 5: that Reagan would make 3.2 million illegals legal and Tip
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  Speaker 5: O'Neill was going to secure the border. Reagan made them
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  Speaker 5: legal and Tip O'Neill did not one thing to secure
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  Speaker 5: the border. Not one thing. After this great deal of 3.2
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  Speaker 5: million people coming in here and just got stabbed in
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  Speaker 5: the back. But here's the worst thing that I ever know,
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  Speaker 5: and this was told to me by a United States
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  Speaker 5: senator when I was a doorman downtown in Omaha, right
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  Speaker 5: across the street from a city, county, and a courthouse.
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  Speaker 5: He'd come in one day, open the door, he goes,
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  Speaker 5: good morning, or good afternoon, George. He goes, good afternoon, Senator.
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  Speaker 5: How you been? What you been up to? He goes, well,
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  Speaker 5: we're working on a bill to take care of poor people. Now,
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  Speaker 5: this is early 80s. Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: And I kind of laughed.
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  Speaker 5: I said, every year you guys save stuff like this.
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  Speaker 5: Every year we've got more poor people.
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  Speaker 6: He goes, well, we've got to do something for them.
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  Speaker 5: And me being kind of a smart butt, go, you
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  Speaker 5: guys sell freaking cigarettes, dude.
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  Speaker 6: The only product allowed to be.
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  Speaker 5: Sold in the United States for the end use is
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  Speaker 5: to kill the user's cigarettes. Anything else, you sell five
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  Speaker 5: million jars of baby food, three babies are dead. That
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  Speaker 5: stuff's off the market in the morning. He looked me
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  Speaker 5: straight in the face and goes, we don't have a choice.
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  Speaker 5: We have to sell cigarettes. Me, I'm 22 years old, 1981-ish.
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  Speaker 5: I go, what do you mean? You're the government. You
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  Speaker 5: can stop cigarette sales in the morning if you want to.
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  Speaker 5: He goes, we can't, George. He goes, we get hundreds
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  Speaker 5: of millions of dollars up front in taxes, and we
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  Speaker 5: have to have cigarettes kill 1.5 billion people before they
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  Speaker 5: get their first Social Security check. And I go, what
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  Speaker 5: the frick did.
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  Speaker 6: You just say to me? I said, that's your plan?
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  Speaker 5: He goes, that ain't my plan. He goes, this plan
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  Speaker 5: was put in the office way before I got here.
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  Speaker 5: He goes, that's why cigarettes are sold. I go, if
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  Speaker 5: you're doing that to us, what the heck else are
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  Speaker 5: you doing to us that we don't know about? And
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  Speaker 5: to this day, cigarettes are still the only product in
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  Speaker 5: the United States that is used to kill the user
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  Speaker 5: that are sold openly by the government. Okay, go ahead
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  Speaker 5: and kill everybody.
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  Speaker 1: What an interesting story. It really is. And what an
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  Speaker 1: interesting perspective that you have. You know, I think you
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  Speaker 1: were just making the point, too, that so many of
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  Speaker 1: these issues that we are talking about today have been
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  Speaker 1: issues for decades and decades and decades, and there's still
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  Speaker 1: not a solution to it. I mean, you talked about illegals.
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  Speaker 1: You talked about open borders. You know, you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: the health and wellness of our citizens and and what
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  Speaker 1: we do to make the almighty dollar. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think that with cigarettes, I understand what you are
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  Speaker 1: saying about that, and they do kill people. And remember,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm old enough, George, we're probably the same
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  Speaker 1: age maybe, to remember commercials on TV with doctors in
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  Speaker 1: white coats sitting at their desks smoking a cig. I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. And let me tell you just a
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  Speaker 1: little personal story about cigarettes. I think, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: was first a critical care nurse before I got into
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  Speaker 1: the political world. And I remembered when I was a
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  Speaker 1: young nurse and I did work at St. Louis University Hospital,
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  Speaker 1: every single nurse in my ICU that I worked in
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  Speaker 1: smoked cigarettes and drank coffee. And I never smoked cigarettes
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  Speaker 1: and I never drank coffee. I was the oddball. And
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  Speaker 1: I could hardly stand it to be in report in
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  Speaker 1: the morning because everybody would light up and smoke in
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  Speaker 1: the hospital. they would light up in smoke and they
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  Speaker 1: would shut the door to the report room and you
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  Speaker 1: could see smoke coming out from under the door into
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  Speaker 1: the ICU. All of those folks at that time, they
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  Speaker 1: knew it wasn't healthy for it. How could they even
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  Speaker 1: think that inhaling smoke was a healthy thing to do?
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  Speaker 1: But everybody did it and it became such a big
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  Speaker 1: habit to many, many people. But that is something that
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  Speaker 1: I never did. But the other thing is, is personal freedom.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's where then people would say, wait, wait, wait.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Is smoking a cigarette illegal? And how are you, government,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: are anybody going to tell me what to do with
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: illegal activity? How can you come and tell me I
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: can't be smoking cigarettes? I know your point is why
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: do we even sell them? But even if we didn't
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: sell them, I guess people could roll their own too.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: So I think the difference here is that it's illegal activity.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: The same thing with drinking alcohol. I mean how many
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: alcoholics do we have? how many people die from alcoholism?
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: How many people have cirrhotic livers and die a horrible
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: death from alcoholism? Do we ever dare take all alcohol?
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, do we have prohibition again? Try doing that,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: taking it off the market to say, well, we know
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: it's not good for you. And so, you know, it does,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: you do have to, it's a balance between what is legal,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: what is healthy, what is not healthy, and what is
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: personal choice too. Same thing happened– I mean this is
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: kind of off but with seatbelts. Remember when seatbelts became
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: the law and people said you can't tell me what
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: to do in the car that I bought. If I
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: don't want to wear a seatbelt, I don't have to
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: wear a seatbelt. But then they would have all these
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: physicians come on board. And they would say, look, if
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I get a patient that just came in from multiple
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: trauma with a big car accident and they had a
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: seatbelt on as opposed to ones that didn't, look at
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: the difference in the injury. Look how long these people
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: stay in the hospital for recovery. And guess who that's costing?
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: It's costing you, the taxpayer, when people stay in the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: ICUs for three or four months longer. that don't have insurance.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: And so that debate has been out there for many, many, many,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: many years. And you are so right, though, to say
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: that a lot of these problems that we are talking
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: about today, we talked about decades ago, and we still
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: don't have a solution for it. It depends on who's
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: in office and what they want to do. And we
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: are back. Can't wait to hear what you have to
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: say about talking about Don Bacon and what he has
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: said on PBS about a possibility of running for president
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: of the United States in 2028. Another thing I wanted
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: to bring up today is one of my favorite topics
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: is the CD2 race with Brinker Harding and Denise Powell.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, folks, I do look at Denise Powell's Facebook.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I have to confess, I guess I kind of stalk
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: her a But I love seeing what she is saying.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: And once again, there was a video that she posted
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: this weekend that this is what really, really annoys me
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: with campaigns. And it is a total lie. And I
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: guess she feels like she needs to do this. To me,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: this reminds me of in the primary what she tried
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: to do to John Kavanaugh. She just tried to lie
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and lie and lie about him to destroy him so
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: she could get through the primary. But this one really
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: got to me because this was posted after the midterm election.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: convention that they had, that Republicans had down in Dallas.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Brinker Harding did go down there. Brinker Harding was back
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Friday morning from down there. So she posts this and
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: she's walking door to door and she's panting. And she's
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: out on the street walking door to door. And she says,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I'm out here knocking on doors in North Omaha while
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: my opponent, Brinker Harding, is down in Dallas at Trumpapalooza
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: kissing the ring of Donald Trump. Now, how low can
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: you get, Denise? Seriously? Because number one, He was not
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: down there anymore. He was back in Omaha campaigning just
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: like you were, Denise. Number two, do you really accuse
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: every Republican that went to that convention as someone that
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: was kissing the ring of Donald Trump? The Democrats have
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: a convention every year when there's a presidential election. Do
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: you think everybody that attends those conventions are there to
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: kiss the ring or kiss the boots or kiss the
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: feet or whatever you want to say today? Absolutely. of
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the candidates that are in office. I mean, it just
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: was mind-boggling to me that this is what she accused
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Brinker of when indeed he was not even down there anymore.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Then she goes on to say, this is what I
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: like doing. I love walking door to door. I love
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: knocking on doors. This is a favorite part of my campaign.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: And I've been doing this for the last 17 years.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: That about made me fall out of my chair. I thought, Denise,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: you are really trying to tell the voters in CD2
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: that you have been knocking on doors for the past
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: 17 years. Boy, I mean, if you have, you must
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: have knocked on everybody's door in the entire district at
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: least 20 times. That's a lot of walking and knocking
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: for the last 17 years. However, and people get tired
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: of me saying this, but I've been in quite a
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: few elections and I've knocked on a lot of doors myself. Again,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I have never heard of Denise Powell. I've never seen
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: her knocking on doors. I've never seen her out there
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: campaigning for anything.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Anything.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: And now she says on this video that she posts
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: that she has been knocking on doors for the last
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: 17 years. For what? What are you knocking on doors about?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: It's like the commercial she put out before that. And
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: she said that while this was a commercial on TV,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: that while our schools, I think she used the word,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: were in crisis, she got Democrats and Republicans together because
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: she was on the PTO to work together. What school
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: crisis is she talking about on her commercial? I mean,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I was on the school board for 11 years. I'm
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: not sure what she was talking about. I'm in tune
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: with all of the area superintendents and schools when I
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: was mayor and when I was on the city council.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I do not remember the schools being in crisis, and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Denise Powell was the one that got everybody together and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Democrats and Republicans and save the public schools. I do
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: not remember this. I do not recall. I don't think
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: anybody that I know that's been involved with the schools
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: can say, yes, that's what she did. I did not
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: know PTOs were partisan. I did not know that they
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: were divided in between Democrats and Republicans. But that's what
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: this candidate for CD2 is trying to tell the voters.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: So Once again, all I can say is, boy, watch
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: what these candidates are saying. Don't believe everything that you
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: are hearing. We need to see what Denise is going
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to do and how she is going to do it.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: She says a lot about I will get Democrats and
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Republicans together to basically solve everything. But how are you
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: going to do this, Denise, when you are– if you're
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: going to be in the House and there's 435 and
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: you're single-handedly going to do this, I guess like she
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: saved the schools and everything else, knocking door to door
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: for the last 17 years. I mean that's just really
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: a wild one. But that is what she is saying
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and she said a vote for me is a vote
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: between– Basically getting things done or if you vote for
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Brinker Harding, it will be chaos. Well, let me tell you.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I've known Brinker for a long time. He's been on
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: the city council since 2017. I've worked with him a
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: lot as mayor council member. Brinker is a very independent thinker.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: He didn't always agree with me. And he would tell
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: me if he didn't agree with me. He wasn't a
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: rubber stamper, but he would always do it respectfully, sit
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: down and say, let's talk about this because here's how
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I think things should be or here's what I think
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: about this issue or I don't agree with you on
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: that issue. And I welcome that. I mean, I welcome
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: that exchange. And it was always done very professionally and
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and very respectfully. That's the Brinker Harding I know. And
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: I've worked with him, like I said, since 2017. So
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I guess she's still out there knocking on doors today.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but good Lord to actually say I've
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: knocked on doors for 17, the last 17 years is
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: really pushing it.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: More comments from you, 402-558-1110 or comment at kfab.com. I
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: want to get to the phone lines real quick. Jean,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: can you, um, Uh, explain to me the cadence of
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: the knock that you did. What was your knocking pattern?
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: My knocking pattern?
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: When I get knock on a door, I go like, Oh, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: or something like that. Do you have the, do you
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: knock on the door the same way every time?
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Well, I knock on the door. What I do.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Boom, boom, boom, boom.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: No, I don't do that. And I don't knock on
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: doors that say no solicitation. I do knock on doors
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: that has my opponent sign in the yard because I
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: look at that as a real challenge. But I would
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: always ring the bell once, bing, bing, and then knock
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: three times.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Knock, knock, knock.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: That's what I would do. Ring the bell and then
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: knock because sometimes the bell doesn't work. But you know
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: what else I did? I had this down to a science.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Did you?
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I did because people do not ask you to knock
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: on their door. And a lot of times they're busy.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: They're doing something else. They don't want you knocking on
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: their door. And so the– I think the issue that
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: a lot of candidates get into is they try to
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: give this big speech at the door. I would go
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: as quick as I possibly could. And I would say, hi,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I'm Jean Stothert. I'm running for mayor. Here's some information.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Hand them a pamphlet. If you have any questions, give
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: me a call. I'd really appreciate your vote.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: Boom.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I was done. And then I would go on to
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the next door. If they had a question, I would
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: stop and answer their question. If they wanted to talk,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I would stop and talk with them. If they wanted
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: me to sit down on their front porch step and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: talk to them, I would. But I wouldn't waste their
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: time if they didn't want me to. So I just
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: did it really, really, really quick. And I think I've
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: told you a funny story about walking. Don Bacon walked
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: with me one time and he's a talker. And he,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's so friendly and he was just a
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: big talker and people would open the door and he'd go, oh,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I love this color of paint you use on your house.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: What color is that? Or something smells good. What are
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: you having for dinner? And he would get into these
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: long conversations, which some people really, really love. But I
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: thought I had to get going. And I thought for
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: every block I would do, that's, you know, maybe 20
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: more votes. And so you just do it And I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: knocked on a lot of doors. I mean, I truly did.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: But if I was going to do a commercial and
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: say I've been knocking on doors for 17 years, I
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: would not be telling you the truth. I mean, for
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the last 26 years, I was in campaigns that I
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: locked on doors. But the way she talked about it,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: it seemed like it was some continuous thing she was doing.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: And that's not happening.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, when I see somebody knock on the door,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: I creep around the corner to see who it is.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: And if I don't recognize it, I probably don't go.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: That's what my daughter says, that same thing. When somebody's
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: knocking on her door, she doesn't answer.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: You know, and think about the ring doorbell cameras now.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Somebody can look in their phone and go, oh, okay.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Unless it's a Girl Scout walking around or some Girl
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Scout cookies, I'm definitely opening the door. But let's hit
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: the phone lines here, 402-558-1110. Greg, you are live here
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: on KFAB.
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah, good morning.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: Good morning.
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: Hey, I'd like to translate Don Bacon's statement for everybody.
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: What he's saying is he wants the grand old party
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: to go back to the good old days of the Fords,
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: the Doles, the Romneys, the McCains, the Mitch McConnells, where
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: they reached across the aisle to the Democrats and gave
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: the Democrats 95%.
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: Of what they wanted.
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: And if they were lucky, they got 5% of what
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: the Republicans wanted.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: That's exactly what he's saying.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: OK, well, I appreciate the call. And you know what, though?
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Let me just say this. Did you did you watch
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the convention? Because I thought the speech that RFK Jr.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: gave was really good because RFK, the Kennedy, you know,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: in a family of Democrats that that really are angry
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: at him for what he's doing right now, some of
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: his family. But what he was saying is the Democrat
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Party now is not the Democrat Party of my dad
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: and my uncle. And he's saying, and then he brought
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: up a lot of positions that the old Democrat Party
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: used to have. And he said, that is not the
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: position of the Democrat Party today. And so I think
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: both Democrats and Republicans are saying the good old days
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: were the days they're trying to say that we did
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: work together and we got things done. Now, your percentages
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: that you gave me, interesting, very interesting.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: And I'm.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm grateful that you called here. I'm not
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: sure that you can say that that happened on every issue,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: that the Republicans reached across the aisle, gave the Democrats 95%,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: and the Republicans got 5%. But anyway, interesting comment. I
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: appreciate you calling in.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Back to the phone lines we go for Brian. You
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: are live with Gene Stothert here on 1110 KFAB.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Welcome in, Brian.
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, Don Bacon is sort of like the Jiminy
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: Cricket of You know, the other Republican Party, you know,
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: People's Pinocchio. And, you know, Brinker Harding is no Don Bacon.
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: I mean, because he does, you know, act as the
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: conscience of the party, and I don't think Brinker has
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: ever said anything critical of Donald Trump. And, you know,
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: if you look at the World Corruption Index, you see
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: the poorest countries are also the most corrupt countries. But
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: even countries with a lot of natural resources like Russia
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: can be low on the index if they're corrupt. And
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: we have an administration that all of their foreign policy is,
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: you know, taking gifts and bribes and deals. And it's
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: all about money and not the national interest or the
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: public interest or world peace. And Don Bacon would be
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: a voice against that. So I hope he does. run
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: and be able to debate, you know, people like Don Jr.
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: who will probably run on the stage and be like,
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: you know, Jiminy Cricket to their Pinocchio.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: And, you know, thank you for the call. The one
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: thing Don Bacon does speak out and he has spoken
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: out in opposition to things that our president has said
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: and done is, And what happened because of that? A
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: lot of the old party Republicans shunned him. I mean,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: they're angry at him for doing that, for speaking out
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: against Trump. different things that the president was standing up
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: for and saying and doing. And I don't, I mean, honestly,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I don't agree with everything Donald Trump says. Sometimes I
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: cringe when I hear these things that he is saying.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, I would still
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: say I'm still a Republican and I still value the
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: original Republican tenets of the party. I'm much more Republican
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: than I am Democrat. But, you know... I because Don
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Bacon stood up for what he believes was right and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: that he is willing to fight for what he is right.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, he was a soldier, for goodness sake. But
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: just remember, I mean, in this area, the Douglas County
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Republican Party did not endorse him. They turned against him
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: because they said he wasn't Trump enough. And so this
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: is where we are getting a lot of our problems.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: The Douglas County Republican Party didn't endorse me in the primary.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: They didn't endorse Brinker in the primary. So, you know,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the party is definitely divided. And that's what really concerns me.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: For the first time in the history of the Gene
• 33:37
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• 33:40
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• 33:42
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• 33:43
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• 34:45
  Speaker 1: it was an anniversary, obviously, the 25th anniversary of the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: attack on U.S. soil. And we saw, as we watched
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: videos from that day 25 years ago, we saw the
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: true best of humanity. The day before, I've been meaning
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: to bring this up, on 9-10 was the anniversary of
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk's assassination. And, you know, when I was seeing
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: what was going all around, all over college campuses, even
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: at UNL Lincoln, I mean, it was almost heartbreaking to
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: see what people were doing. The UNL's campus in Lincoln,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: they had posters plastered all over, as well as other
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: campuses across the country, mocking his death, celebrating his killing. saying,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: rest in P-I-S-S, and I'm glad he's dead. And so,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this really got to me when people were
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  Speaker 1: doing this, that universities are places of debates. They are
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  Speaker 1: places of differing opinions, but universities, in my opinion, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, you may feel differently, are not a
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  Speaker 1: place to celebrate a murder. And that's what was happening
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  Speaker 1: on the 10th of September all over the country, including
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  Speaker 1: in Lincoln, Nebraska. Um, How heartbreaking is something like that?
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  Speaker 1: So I have to bring that up. I want to
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  Speaker 1: know what you all think about that. I know you
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  Speaker 1: all have seen a lot about it on the radio
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  Speaker 1: and on television. But here's these two days, one after another,
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  Speaker 1: that we see really some of the worst of humanity
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  Speaker 1: and then some of the best of humanity. That's what's
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  Speaker 1: going on right now in our country. And there's so
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  Speaker 1: much going on in our country that we aren't privy to.
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  Speaker 1: We are sure about as far as national security. So
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  Speaker 1: once again, these elections coming up are so very important.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Jean. And I'm just getting a few emails here.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is political parties should be not being– political
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  Speaker 3: parties should not be making primary endorsements and in the general.
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  Speaker 2: The candidate really needs to request an endorsement.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. I think they should not be making endorsements
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  Speaker 1: in the primary. I mean, they should be supporting all
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  Speaker 1: of their candidates that are running. I think making an
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  Speaker 1: endorsement in the primary is the wrong way to go.
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  Speaker 1: And I wish local parties, state parties should not be
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  Speaker 1: doing that. And I think we need to get every
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  Speaker 1: candidate out there and understand where they're coming from and
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  Speaker 1: go from there. I don't think the mayor of Omaha
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  Speaker 1: should have been endorsing candidates in the primary. It is
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  Speaker 1: something I would never do. And you stop and you
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  Speaker 1: think that, you know, Brinker Harding is sitting on the
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  Speaker 1: city council, for example, CD2 again, and Mayor Ewing and
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  Speaker 1: his wife came out and endorsed Denise Powell. Mayor Ewing
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  Speaker 1: came out and endorsed Don Klein, our Douglas County attorney's opponent.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's one after another after another, and I
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  Speaker 1: think let's wait until after the primaries, folks, and see
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  Speaker 1: who we're actually going to be voting for. And if
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  Speaker 1: you want to go out there and endorse, I would
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  Speaker 1: say do it. But boy, I don't really like how
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  Speaker 1: these endorsements are going and for what reasons that parties
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  Speaker 1: are endorsing people or not endorsing people.
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  Speaker 2: 402-558-1110.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff, you are live with Gene Stothert here on KFAB.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Madam Mayor.
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  Speaker 1: How are you today? Really good. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: All right. I just got into my truck. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: quite catch the whole segment, but I caught your comment
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  Speaker 4: about the party divided on the Republican side, and it
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  Speaker 4: almost sounded like it had a negative connotation. I, for one,
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  Speaker 4: I'm extremely happy that the parties are beginning to break
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  Speaker 4: apart For the last 25 years, I've been a union
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  Speaker 4: craftsman in this town, and I've had my feet in
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  Speaker 4: both buckets the whole time. I'm pro-labor, pro-life, pro-2A, pro-legal immigration,
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  Speaker 4: and fiscally conservative, socially liberal, and I haven't fit the
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  Speaker 4: mold on any of them. And everywhere I go, I'm
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  Speaker 4: sort of looked at as an outsider in either party,
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  Speaker 4: and I just I'm personally very happy they're breaking up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Jeff, I appreciate your call, but my question would
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  Speaker 1: be to you. If the parties are breaking up, then
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  Speaker 1: how in the world are we going to get anything
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  Speaker 1: done in Washington, D.C.? It is a two-party system. They
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  Speaker 1: caucus together. That's why I want to ask the question
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  Speaker 1: with Dan Osborne. He says, no, I am an independent,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not how you get things done in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: So if these parties do break apart, rather than you reunite,
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  Speaker 1: and at least come out and say, here's the tenets
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  Speaker 1: that I stand for. I may not stand for all
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  Speaker 1: of them, but this is the party that reflects my
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  Speaker 1: values more than the other one. You know, my mom
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  Speaker 1: and dad were both Democrats. My whole family was a Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: And when I asked my mom and dad as I
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  Speaker 1: got older, why were you a Democrat? You know what
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  Speaker 1: they told me? They said that only rich people are Republican.
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  Speaker 1: And they were very middle to lower class. So we're
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  Speaker 1: a Democrat. That's their reason for becoming a Democrat. And
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  Speaker 1: so I think– and that was my mom and dad.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think about why people become in one
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  Speaker 1: party or another. You don't have to be– there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of Democrats that are pro-life, for example. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to be 100 percent. But what I'm saying is
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  Speaker 1: one party or another should reflect more of your values
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  Speaker 1: than the other. But if they– The parties truly fell apart.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure how we would get anything done in Washington, D.C.,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a lot that needs to be done.
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  Speaker 3: Wrapping up the Gene Stothert KFAB comment line here on
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  Speaker 3: NewsRadio 1110 KFAB.
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to highlight Jeannie.
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  Speaker 3: Won a family day pass to the Durham Museum exhibit
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  Speaker 3: in search of the signers. Jeannie is a 50-year KFAB listener.
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  Speaker 3: What a better winner. I don't think there is one
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  Speaker 3: than that on the first day of this. Wrapping up
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  Speaker 3: the show here, Jean.
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  Speaker 1: And her name is Jeannie, too. You know, only two
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  Speaker 1: people ever called me Jeannie, my mom and my grandma.
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  Speaker 1: I was Jeannie to them, so Peyton, don't even think
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  Speaker 1: about it right now. But it sounds like there's music playing.
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  Speaker 1: That is it for us today. Time flies when you're
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  Speaker 1: having fun. Thank you so much for spending this hour
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  Speaker 1: with us today. Love getting your calls and your comments.
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  Speaker 1: We really do appreciate it, and we'd love for you
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  Speaker 1: to join us again tomorrow. I'm Jean Stothert, and this
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  Speaker 1: is 1110 KFAB.