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Who has the BEST Reuben in Omaha? · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: And thank you for being with us. Peyton Hilock, the producer,
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Speaker 1: is here with me today. Good morning, Good morning Geene.
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Speaker 1: It is a great day outside. It is it's a
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Speaker 1: great day for golf, and I think that's why Scott
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Speaker 1: Vorhees went running out the door at rapid speed. But
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Speaker 1: we want to hear from you today. We want to
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Speaker 1: get your feedback. We want to hear your comments and
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Speaker 1: concerns and questions and complaints. Anything goes. We talked a
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Speaker 1: lot about different subjects this week, and I want to
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Speaker 1: just I don't have a guest today, but I want
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Speaker 1: to bring a lot of them back up to get
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Speaker 1: your opinion on a lot that was said, especially about
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Speaker 1: talking about the incident that happened at Walmart here in Omaha.
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Speaker 1: But really anything goes today and whether it's city, state, national,
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Speaker 1: the world, and we will have like I said, we
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Speaker 1: will have guests. We're going to have a good guest
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Speaker 1: tomorrow and I'll tell you about that in a little bit.
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Speaker 1: And of course you're going to get a lot of
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Speaker 1: opinions from me. But it's your chance to speak up
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Speaker 1: five to five, eight eleven ten, and we're happy you're
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Speaker 1: with us, you know, Peyton. I said yesterday that Wednesday
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Speaker 1: is my favorite day of the week because I get
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Speaker 1: to take care of my grandson, the world famous Max,
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Speaker 1: six years old kindergartener. And he always says the funniest things.
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Speaker 1: But yesterday it was such a nice day and we
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Speaker 1: were out in the backyard and they have one of
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Speaker 1: those big play structory things that's all I wood and
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Speaker 1: has all this stuff. Well, he wanted to get from
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Speaker 1: one side to the other without putting his feet on
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Speaker 1: the ground. This was his big thing, he told me.
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Speaker 1: And he goes, you know, Grandma, the floor is lava.
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Speaker 1: And he said, and there's also a lot of mutant
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Speaker 1: snakes down there.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you can't. You can't touch the ground.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 1: And I said, mutant state snakes? You mean like two
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Speaker 1: headed snakes And he goes, no, I mean they're immune
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Speaker 1: to the hot lava. And I go, oh, I get it, okay.
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Speaker 1: And then he looked at me and he goes, do
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Speaker 1: you know that one thousand venuses can fit in the sun?
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Speaker 1: I go no, I did not know that, But he
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Speaker 1: was right.
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Speaker 4: It just came out of his head, so he was right.
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Speaker 1: We looked it up. My husband was there with me yesterday.
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Speaker 1: There could be one thousand fetuses could fit in the sun.
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Speaker 1: But you know, onto some more serious issues. I was
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Speaker 1: listening to Scott this morning, and maybe some of you
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Speaker 1: were too. But there's still a lot of conversation going
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Speaker 1: on about what happened at Walmart and why the suspect
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Speaker 1: who is now dead, she had a history of mental illness,
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Speaker 1: a known history of mental illness, had been in court,
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Speaker 1: had received some treatment in the past. But why these
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Speaker 1: things are happening now and why there are not more
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Speaker 1: facilities for mental health. And you know, I remembered back
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Speaker 1: way back when I was in nursing school, which was
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Speaker 1: in the seventies, that was just part of your training.
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Speaker 1: I mean, psychiatric nursing was part of the training. There
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Speaker 1: were inpatient psychiatric wards in the hospital, there was inpatient facilities.
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Speaker 1: But I will tell you this. The movement came about,
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Speaker 1: I think with very noble intentions, but I think it
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Speaker 1: suffered with inadequate planning, in inadequate funding. And that was
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Speaker 1: the old stereotype of a mental institution. It was these
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Speaker 1: big fortresses with fences around them in stone walls, and
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Speaker 1: the thought that people that had mental disorders were just
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Speaker 1: thrown in there, locked up, and their future was bleaked.
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Speaker 1: And there was all sorts of rumors about experimentation and
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Speaker 1: mistreatment of patients. And the whole thought was, let's get
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Speaker 1: these patients that are suffering from whatever kind of mental
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Speaker 1: illness out of these institutions, and let's get them back
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Speaker 1: in society and let's give them the treatment they need
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Speaker 1: without patient facilities. Well that sounded great, you know, it
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Speaker 1: really did, but it didn't materialize like that, and that's
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Speaker 1: why more and more of these facilities closed. But there
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Speaker 1: wasn't any options to take the place. And what you
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Speaker 1: are seeing now is that there's a real shortage of
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Speaker 1: caretakers and providers, and I don't mean just the institutus,
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Speaker 1: but the people themselves. There are less and less physicians
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Speaker 1: going into psychiatry, There are less and less nurses that
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Speaker 1: are going into psychiatric nursing than before, and and so
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Speaker 1: you see this this lack of facilities and lack of
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Speaker 1: the ability to treat these patients, which, like I said
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Speaker 1: in the beginning, that was a noble intention, but it
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Speaker 1: just didn't work.
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Speaker 2: Out.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't that long ago with Richard Young was open
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Speaker 1: here in Omaha down on Harney Street that is closed down.
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Speaker 1: You know, I, like I said, I just remember and
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Speaker 1: my first job after I got out of nursing school
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Speaker 1: in Illinois, and it was at Saint Louis University and
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Speaker 1: they had a it was called Wole Mental Health Institute
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Speaker 1: right next to Saint Louis University Hospital and it was
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Speaker 1: an inpatient mental health facility. Now I do know in
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Speaker 1: Saint Louis, a huge, huge conglomerate is Barnes Jewish Hospital,
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Speaker 1: which is part of wash U and Saint Louis, and
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Speaker 1: they still do have a psychiatric facility within that hospital.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know, and I'd have to do some
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Speaker 1: research if it really varies state to state or not.
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Speaker 1: But you know, in Omaha, let me just bring up
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Speaker 1: a few things, and that is thank goodness spearheaded by
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Speaker 1: a great man ken Stenson, who's the former KEYWIT chairman.
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Speaker 1: There now is down on Dodge Street, west of Children's Hospital,
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Speaker 1: a new facility which is Children's Behavioral Health and Wellness Center.
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Speaker 1: And this is something that ken Stenson spearheaded help raise
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Speaker 1: the money for. It is open and it will take
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Speaker 1: care of youth from they said from infancy on up
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Speaker 1: to probably about eighteen to nineteen years old. And that
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Speaker 1: is a walking clinic. You can come in and out.
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Speaker 1: It does have some inpatient facilities within this mental health
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Speaker 1: and wellness center there. It treats everything from mental disorders
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Speaker 1: to eating disorders. And this is something that we have
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Speaker 1: in Omaha now that not many cities have. And there
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Speaker 1: is a big need I think out there for the youth,
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Speaker 1: and there's a lot and you know, we see that
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Speaker 1: all over what other facilities and what other options do
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Speaker 1: they have? And unfortunately, what you see in many big
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Speaker 1: cities and in Omaha too, if there isn't a facility
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Speaker 1: for the youth, what happens? They end up out on
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Speaker 1: the street. And we are seeing more and more younger
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Speaker 1: people within their teens becoming homeless because there's no place
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Speaker 1: for them to go either. Another thing that we did
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Speaker 1: when I was Mayor of the city with Omaha Police
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Speaker 1: Department is we did it at first on a grant
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Speaker 1: with a pilot and we had hired a mental several
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Speaker 1: mental health professionals that would respond to every nine to
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Speaker 1: one to one call that was a DV call a
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Speaker 1: domestic violence call because you as a you know what
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Speaker 1: happened just recently with the Douglas County Sheriff's deputy. Those
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Speaker 1: domestic violence its calls are very dangerous and just sending
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Speaker 1: a police officer or a couple police officers out there
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Speaker 1: sometimes can put them in a very very precarious situation
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Speaker 1: because they are dealing with mental illness. A lot after
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Speaker 1: the pilot, we went ahead and funded that and put
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Speaker 1: it in Omaha Police Department's budget. There is a mental
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Speaker 1: health professional now in every police precinct in the city
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Speaker 1: of Omaha, and they are dispatched with nine to one
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Speaker 1: one if there's a domestic violence call that comes in
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Speaker 1: through nine one one. And so that is something above
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Speaker 1: and beyond that the Omaha Police Department now is doing
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Speaker 1: to help address these issues with their calls that they
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Speaker 1: get through nine one one. And then I just wanted
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Speaker 1: to bring up if you look at things that have
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Speaker 1: happened in Omaha in the past, doctor Anthony Garcia and
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Speaker 1: Nico Jenkins, I think everybody remembers those several years ago,
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Speaker 1: both very mentally ill serial killers here in Omaha. Now
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Speaker 1: both are incarcerated, but the story with them and the
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Speaker 1: story of their past life and what had happened to
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Speaker 1: them to get them to this place was just unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: And doctor Anthony Garcia was a physician and went to
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Speaker 1: medical school and ended up being a serial killer on
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Speaker 1: a revenge mission that he had. And so these are
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Speaker 1: things that are very, very real and very real in
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Speaker 1: society right now. But I just had to say, I
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Speaker 1: think it was that what has happened for them not
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Speaker 1: having enough facilities to take care or to put people
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Speaker 1: that are mentally ill or suffering from mental health problems.
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Speaker 1: There's not a lot around because of what happened in
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Speaker 1: that movement in the past. Let's get them out of
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Speaker 1: these big facilities, don't lock them up anymore, Let's give
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Speaker 1: them the treatment. Great intention, but the facilities aren't there anymore.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I obviously everybody knows this about me.
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Speaker 1: It's personal to me too. Mental illness. The person my
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Speaker 1: husband for forty one years, never ever ever thought it
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Speaker 1: would happen to him, a surgeon, a physician, a very
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Speaker 1: well known respected and I saw a downward spiral with him,
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Speaker 1: but he would not get treatment. And you know, and
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Speaker 1: you can't believe how you feel when I'm my past,
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Speaker 1: I'm a nurse. I feel like I should have recognized this.
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Speaker 1: I know it's very hard on my kids, who were
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Speaker 1: adults at the time, but still, this downward spiral and
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Speaker 1: all of the symptoms were there, and all the signs
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Speaker 1: were there, and you thought, well, you got to give
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Speaker 1: him help, but you never ever thought it would end
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Speaker 1: in a suicide and it did. And so personal with me.
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Speaker 1: I mean, people absolutely need help, but there is there's
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Speaker 1: a lack of it, and you know, I think we
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Speaker 1: all need to do a little bit more as far
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Speaker 1: as what is a state by state do certain states
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Speaker 1: offer and other states don't. But there is an issue
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Speaker 1: out there, and I just wanted to really bring that
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Speaker 1: up because we used to have him here in Omaha,
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Speaker 1: and it used to be part of every nurses and
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Speaker 1: every physician's training, and it's not there anymore.
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Speaker 5: I think society is really trying to destigmatize getting help,
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Speaker 5: especially in men. It could be very difficult in men,
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Speaker 5: but for everybody as well that it is. Okay, I'm
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Speaker 5: gonna go to the radio talk back Mike.
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Speaker 2: Here.
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Speaker 5: This is on the iHeartRadio app. You hit that microphone
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Speaker 5: you can send us a message and here we go.
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Speaker 1: What can you tell us about about the Rich or
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Speaker 1: Young hospital or building?
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Speaker 3: What's ever gonna happen to it?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know they.
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Speaker 1: I forgot that was a talkback now Mike, I was
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Speaker 1: going to start talking to him.
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Speaker 4: You know, it is.
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Speaker 1: It is vacant now. I believe it has been that
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Speaker 1: they are looking at purchasing it. Uh, you know, a
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Speaker 1: private group of nonprofit is looking at at purchasing it.
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Speaker 2: You'll probably turn it into a Walmart.
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Speaker 4: No, it's not. It's not big enough.
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Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, you know, I drove by that
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Speaker 1: every single day for twelve years, and as you know,
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Speaker 1: it's kind of pushed back from the street and I
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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes when you drive down a street every day,
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Speaker 1: you don't pay a lot of attention to what's around you.
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Speaker 1: And I did not realize until about a year or
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Speaker 1: so ago what bad shape that was.
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Speaker 5: It was.
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Speaker 1: You know, the windows were open, they were broken. It
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Speaker 1: just it looked bad. And so the city did put
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Speaker 1: some attention to that, trying to get that boarded up
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Speaker 1: and safe. But there definitely is I believe that there
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Speaker 1: is a private nonprofit group that is going to purchase
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Speaker 1: that and that's going to do.
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Speaker 4: Something with that.
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Speaker 5: You got that Omaha World Herald in front of you,
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Speaker 5: per usual, you're shuffling through it.
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Speaker 2: What are you thinking about it today?
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Speaker 1: Well, the one thing I will say, and I don't
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Speaker 1: want this show to always be just about the street car,
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Speaker 1: but everybody wants to know about it, and I'm willing
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Speaker 1: to talk about it. But we did have a really
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Speaker 1: interesting guest on yesterday which I want to thank him again,
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Speaker 1: and that was Clark Ross, who is the owner of
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Speaker 1: Mercury Bar down on sixteenth and Harney. But he is
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Speaker 1: the one that is spearheaded. I guess he would be
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Speaker 1: called the chairman of this a gliance group that is
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Speaker 1: formed of one hundred and twenty businesses or in residents.
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Speaker 1: And I call it the corridor because it's the streetcar corridor,
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Speaker 1: meaning the three blocks or the three blocks on either
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Speaker 1: side of where the rails will be, and then the
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Speaker 1: six block area on either side or where the rails
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Speaker 1: will be, because those are the ones that are suffering
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Speaker 1: the most hardship with the construction. But I wanted to
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Speaker 1: make sure he was on so that he would have
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Speaker 1: a voice and say here's what is happening to us,
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Speaker 1: because this was never the intention. I mean, everybody knew
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Speaker 1: that when we were going to be building a streetcar
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Speaker 1: that there would be hardship for the businesses along the route.
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Speaker 1: But well, for every street project in Omaha, everyone, whether
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Speaker 1: it's out Millard, whether it's an Elkhorn, there is a
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Speaker 1: disruption when there's a road a project going on, and
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Speaker 1: it's usually very very temporary, and then it's usually once
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Speaker 1: it's done, it's very beneficial to all of those that
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Speaker 1: are along that street or whatever the construction was going
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Speaker 1: to be. And that's what we thought with the construction
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Speaker 1: of the street car. And I want everybody to keep
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Speaker 1: in mind that the original completion date was supposed to
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Speaker 1: be twenty twenty six this year, and because of all
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Speaker 1: of the additional mud work that mud is requiring, it's
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Speaker 1: added two years now. These businesses and these residents on
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Speaker 1: there is a real concern to me. Now, I don't
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Speaker 1: have any authority to do anything anymore, but I really
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Speaker 1: think that I'm glad that he said the city is
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Speaker 1: meeting with them. I am very very glad that the
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Speaker 1: city is taking some extra efforts as far as wayfinding,
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Speaker 1: of as far as traffic control, as far as offering
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Speaker 1: other options for parking. But these businesses are really suffering
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Speaker 1: and suffering for a longer period of time than anybody
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Speaker 1: ever thought. And because of that, some of their revenues
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Speaker 1: are down thirty thirty five, sometimes forty percent, and they're
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Speaker 1: not going to survive two more years, and that's a
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Speaker 1: big concern. One of the solutions that I had and
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Speaker 1: my team had was to have a hardship fund, which
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Speaker 1: we did do. Had about one point two million. It
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Speaker 1: was run through the Chamber, but we knew at the
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Speaker 1: time that wasn't enough, and now since the construction is
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Speaker 1: going on two extra years, they do need some sort
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Speaker 1: of financial relief. I will say this. Clark brought it
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Speaker 1: up and I did too. It is not legal for
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Speaker 1: the city to give taxpayer money to private business That
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Speaker 1: is in the state constitution, so the city can't give
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Speaker 1: taxpayer money. However, the city can do a lot of
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Speaker 1: public private partnerships, and I would encourage them to continue
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Speaker 1: to look for ways, hopefully from other private businesses that
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Speaker 1: are bigger businesses that are really going to benefit from
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Speaker 1: the streetcar, to consider working on another hardship fund to
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Speaker 1: help these businessesses get through this time, because it's going
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Speaker 1: to be positive when the street car is done, the
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Speaker 1: big businesses along the route are definitely going to benefit
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Speaker 1: from it. But at the same time, the big businesses
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Speaker 1: along the route do not want all the smaller businesses, restaurants, bars,
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Speaker 1: residents to move out. And that's not what we want.
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Speaker 1: That's just defeating the purpose. So why we're doing it.
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Speaker 1: So again, I really I support what they are doing.
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Speaker 1: I understand what they were doing.
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Speaker 4: I am looking.
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Speaker 1: You asked me about the World Herald, and I went
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Speaker 1: off on this other thing. But there is a Midland
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Speaker 1: Voice today which is an opinion and it's by Eric Miller.
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Speaker 1: And Eric Miller is the streetcar operation manager for the
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Speaker 1: City of Omaha, and he wrote an op ed in
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Speaker 1: the World Herald which is a positive one today and
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Speaker 1: it just it's the headline is current route for the
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Speaker 1: Omaha street car in the best place. And he goes
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Speaker 1: back and explains how the initial route was studied, why
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Speaker 1: it was determined to be in the area that it is,
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Speaker 1: and then that the plan is to do in the
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Speaker 1: future for the streetcar line. But it's a very good article,
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Speaker 1: and if you get the World Herald and read it,
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Speaker 1: I would suggest you read it. So I'm reading it
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Speaker 1: right now.
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Speaker 5: It's always very fun speaking of construction. Correct me if
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Speaker 5: I'm wrong here, But this new Omaha Public Library is
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Speaker 5: opening up the nineteenth this weekend, right, They're big grand opening. Yes,
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Speaker 5: I had a couple of people reach out asking about that.
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Speaker 5: The first one here, can you interview Courtney Kopitz? Sorry
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Speaker 5: if I mispronounced that the library media director fabulous wanted
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Speaker 5: to be a librarian since she was three. That could
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Speaker 5: be fun. Get her on here for a little segment
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Speaker 5: in relation to the opening. That could be a little
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Speaker 5: bit of fun.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 1: I agree. And Laura Marlane is the library director. She
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Speaker 1: is one that the marriage does not appoint the library
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Speaker 1: born a trustees appoints the library director. But I was
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Speaker 1: very involved in the really initial planning with the library.
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Speaker 1: I would love to have Laura on or I would
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Speaker 1: love to have who did you just set Courtney Courtney on? Yes,
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Speaker 1: But again, according to Mary Ewing, there is a basically
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Speaker 1: a gag order on city employees and city directors such
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Speaker 1: as mar Laura Marlane coming on this show and talking
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Speaker 1: to the public about.
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Speaker 4: City issues, and so it's disappointing.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why any mayor or any administration would
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Speaker 1: back away from city employees coming on the air to
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Speaker 1: inform the public about something as great as this new library.
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Speaker 1: I would love to have them on, but as far
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Speaker 1: as I know in the last email I received from
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Speaker 1: the communication director, it's that any request from me will
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Speaker 1: be denied by order of Mayor John Ewing, And so yes,
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Speaker 1: I would love to have them on. But let me
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Speaker 1: just remind you about the library too. And when I
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Speaker 1: mentioned while ago public private partnerships, this is just a
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Speaker 1: really good example of a perfect public private partnership that
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Speaker 1: the City of Omaha had with Heritage and with a
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Speaker 1: lot of the foundations. Because that's about one hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty eight million dollar library on the corner of seventy
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Speaker 1: second end Dodge. The city put in about twenty million,
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Speaker 1: and the rest is private, and it will be a
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Speaker 1: city owned and operated library. The employees are all city employees.
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Speaker 1: This is an example of it, and it will always
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Speaker 1: be public. It's not going to be private. And this
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Speaker 1: is a real good example of public private partnerships.
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Speaker 2: I'm curious about how much you know.
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Speaker 5: Is it true that the new library will be completely
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Speaker 5: automated and there will be no browsing other than on
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Speaker 5: a computer. And then the tail end of the question
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Speaker 5: is what will become of the Swanson Library at ninetieth
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Speaker 5: and Dodge.
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Speaker 1: Right now, there is no plans to do anything with Swanson.
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Speaker 1: I know that it's so close to seventy second in Dodge.
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Speaker 1: Ninetieth and Dodge is very very close. We have had
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Speaker 1: genealogy at the Swanson Library.
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Speaker 4: There was talks way back in.
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Speaker 1: The Faihi administration about shutting down Swanson, but right now,
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Speaker 1: there is absolutely no plans to shut it down.
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Speaker 5: Right now, maybe you guys could use a little bit
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Speaker 5: of extra library time.
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Speaker 2: There's another one for you guys to go to.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, true, But let me tell you there is a
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Speaker 1: unbelievable robotic system in this new Central Library that can
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Speaker 1: retrieve books for the whole city basically, and you can't.
19:13
Speaker 1: You know, it's like a bot and it's just unbelievable.
19:15
Speaker 1: It's stories and stories high, and it's like robotics are
19:19
Speaker 1: in there that'll retrieve books immediately, and it's just amazing
19:22
Speaker 1: how it works. But yes, there are still stacks, and
19:25
Speaker 1: yes you can still browse for books, and yes there
19:28
Speaker 1: are still going to be reading areas that you can sit,
19:30
Speaker 1: and there's a children's area with books. You don't want
19:33
Speaker 1: a child to come to the library and have to
19:35
Speaker 1: use a robotic to get a book.
19:37
Speaker 4: I know it. They probably would.
19:39
Speaker 2: Like it drop it off like a vending machine.
19:40
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what it does. It's pretty amazing. But
19:44
Speaker 1: that is something that I think people will really want
19:46
Speaker 1: to learn about that we have available in this new library.
19:50
Speaker 1: And we call it the Central Library. It doesn't have
19:52
Speaker 1: a name, just Central, and it replaced the Central Library
19:56
Speaker 1: which was Dale Clark Downtown. But I will say that
20:00
Speaker 1: there still will be stacks and it still has the
20:02
Speaker 1: appearance of the libraries of the past that we all love.
20:06
Speaker 5: Well. I learned the Dewey decimal system, so I'm glad
20:09
Speaker 5: I'll still be able to put those skills to use.
20:12
Speaker 4: I don't believe you know about, oh, come on the
20:15
Speaker 4: Dewey system. I think that's been gone for a while.
20:19
Speaker 1: But yes, I mean, I think people love books, they
20:21
Speaker 1: love libraries, and they love to go in there. And
20:23
Speaker 1: I think I hope everybody it's going to open the
20:26
Speaker 1: nineteenth to the public. I hope everybody goes in there
20:29
Speaker 1: and takes a look at it. Because there's a different
20:32
Speaker 1: thing of opinion, difference of opinion about the outside, about
20:36
Speaker 1: the look and the design. Some people love it, some
20:39
Speaker 1: people don't like it. But I think once you walk
20:42
Speaker 1: through those doors and you see what it has to offer,
20:45
Speaker 1: you're gonna love it.
20:45
Speaker 2: Yes, all of us here are human. I'm human, Gene.
20:48
Speaker 2: Are you human?
20:48
Speaker 1: Yes, definitely, definitely human.
20:51
Speaker 2: Classic We are not a bot. Yes, nobody here is.
20:55
Speaker 4: We are not AI.
20:56
Speaker 5: Okay, So, Jeane, I've gotten this quite a few times
21:00
Speaker 5: in the emails and the talkbacks, and I'll just read
21:03
Speaker 5: this to you. I want you to respond here and
21:05
Speaker 5: maybe give to the listeners out there some of the contexts. Okay,
21:08
Speaker 5: this comes from Shirley. Thank you for the email. Shirley
21:11
Speaker 5: comment at kfab dot com. I've listened to your show
21:14
Speaker 5: every day since it started, but with all due respect,
21:17
Speaker 5: you need to get over the fact and stop mentioning
21:19
Speaker 5: it every day. The Mayor Ewing has put a gag
21:22
Speaker 5: order on his staff from being on your show. Get
21:24
Speaker 5: over it and move on. Have you even reached out
21:27
Speaker 5: and invited the mayor to coffee so you can settle
21:29
Speaker 5: your difference.
21:31
Speaker 1: Well, actually not reach out nask to coffee, but I
21:34
Speaker 1: have reached out to the mayor's office following the basically
21:39
Speaker 1: the guidelines that I was given that any request to
21:42
Speaker 1: be on the show had to go through the communication director.
21:46
Speaker 4: So I did do that.
21:47
Speaker 1: I did reach out and I did send an email,
21:49
Speaker 1: and the response was any request from me for city
21:53
Speaker 1: staff or directors to be on the show would be declined.
21:57
Speaker 1: When I first when the election was over, and I'm
22:01
Speaker 1: going back, you know, to last may But when I
22:04
Speaker 1: became mayor, I defeated Jim Subtle, Jim Suttle reached out
22:09
Speaker 1: to me, or I reached out to him. I went
22:11
Speaker 1: up to his office, been a long time with him,
22:14
Speaker 1: talked about the job of a mayor. He showed me around,
22:16
Speaker 1: We chit chatted. I have said, do you you know,
22:19
Speaker 1: let me know what I need to know. I can't
22:21
Speaker 1: say that Jim Suttle and I are best of friends,
22:23
Speaker 1: but whenever we see each other, we're very, very friendly
22:25
Speaker 1: with each other. As my other opponents that I've had
22:29
Speaker 1: in the past, Mayor Ewing never did reach out to me.
22:33
Speaker 1: After he won the election, I then then reached out
22:36
Speaker 1: to him and asked if we could meet and if
22:39
Speaker 1: we could sit down and if we could talk, and
22:41
Speaker 1: I was given he was really too busy to meet
22:44
Speaker 1: with me, so we never did meet.
22:46
Speaker 4: He never did accept that invitation.
22:48
Speaker 1: Now I would not I would like not to have
22:51
Speaker 1: to talk about it every day, and I usually don't
22:53
Speaker 1: bring it up, but it is relevant every day because
22:57
Speaker 1: there are so many issues that people call into the
23:00
Speaker 1: show and comment about that. I would like to have
23:03
Speaker 1: a city employee, a city director to come on the
23:06
Speaker 1: show and just talk about the issue of the day
23:10
Speaker 1: that this show is not focused on talking about the
23:13
Speaker 1: current mayor. This show is focused on talking about current issues.
23:17
Speaker 1: And if we're talking about the library, or we're talking
23:20
Speaker 1: about a new development, we're talking about the streetcar, we're
23:22
Speaker 1: talking about the butt city budget. It's very, very helpful
23:26
Speaker 1: to have the city taxpayer paid employees come on and
23:30
Speaker 1: share their expertise. I know them all, I've worked with them,
23:33
Speaker 1: most of them I hired, and I support what they do.
23:36
Speaker 1: And so again, Shirley, thanks for the comment. I would
23:42
Speaker 1: like to not to have to talk about it every day,
23:44
Speaker 1: but like I said, it becomes relevant every day when
23:47
Speaker 1: there is a public safety issue. I would like to
23:49
Speaker 1: have my friend TODJ. Moteraan I've worked with Todd for
23:52
Speaker 1: sixteen years. He's not allowed to come on. So I
23:56
Speaker 1: think it's important for people to understand the dynamics. So
23:59
Speaker 1: what's going on.
24:01
Speaker 5: Absolutely, thank you for your email, Shirley. We appreciate this
24:03
Speaker 5: type of insight and these questions.
24:05
Speaker 2: We love it.
24:06
Speaker 5: It creates a good atmosphere for everyone in the community.
24:08
Speaker 5: We're gonna jump to the phone lines real quick. Ken,
24:10
Speaker 5: you are live on news radio eleven ten KFAB with
24:14
Speaker 5: Gene Stothart.
24:15
Speaker 2: Welcome, Ken, Hello Arny.
24:19
Speaker 6: I was just curious if if anybody would be really
24:26
Speaker 6: opposed in Amaha with all the mental health crisis going
24:29
Speaker 6: on in the area, the juvenile's detention center that they
24:34
Speaker 6: built that's not being used, if it would be wise
24:37
Speaker 6: to maybe even consider turning that into some type of
24:41
Speaker 6: mental health center, so we're not releasing people back with
24:47
Speaker 6: back into the public with mental health issues like what
24:50
Speaker 6: happened at Walmart the other day, right, And you.
24:53
Speaker 1: Know, I would say a possibility. You know, the juvenile
24:57
Speaker 1: court judges are in that new facility, but it was
25:01
Speaker 1: meant for youth to be in there, and that portion
25:05
Speaker 1: of it is empty and not being used. Now that
25:08
Speaker 1: building does belong to Douglas County, it's not a city
25:11
Speaker 1: of Omaha. Building, and it's Douglas County Board that would
25:15
Speaker 1: make that decision of if that building is going to
25:18
Speaker 1: be repurposed and used for something else. However, mental health
25:23
Speaker 1: is under the umbrella of Douglas County, not the City
25:26
Speaker 1: of Omaha. So you know, you don't see anything line
25:30
Speaker 1: item any budget in the City of Omaha's budget for
25:33
Speaker 1: mental health or mental treatment that is more under Douglas County.
25:38
Speaker 1: So that would be some decision that they would definitely
25:42
Speaker 1: have to make. But let me remind you the reason
25:45
Speaker 1: that there are so few rooms in that new facility
25:51
Speaker 1: that Douglas County built and it is empty is because
25:54
Speaker 1: it was back to the same thing I was talking
25:57
Speaker 1: about before. They wanted to get a way from having
26:02
Speaker 1: in I'm going to call them patient Inpatients are incarcerating
26:05
Speaker 1: kids and giving them the treatment that they need to
26:09
Speaker 1: keep them back in school and back in society and
26:12
Speaker 1: back out doing normal things, but the treatments aren't available yet.
26:17
Speaker 1: It was kind of the they got the cart before
26:20
Speaker 1: the horse, so they built the building. They didn't put
26:23
Speaker 1: enough rooms for all the kids that are right now
26:26
Speaker 1: in the Douglas County Youth Center. They don't have enough
26:28
Speaker 1: beds for them, but they don't yet have the mental
26:32
Speaker 1: health facilities, or the counseling, or the social workers are
26:36
Speaker 1: all of those needs that are out there, they don't
26:39
Speaker 1: have those yet, and that's just the problem we're talking
26:42
Speaker 1: about earlier. They just don't have the It was a
26:46
Speaker 1: great intention to say we're not going to lock people
26:49
Speaker 1: up anymore, we're not going to incarcerate them. We're going
26:51
Speaker 1: to give them the treatment they need. But that treatments
26:53
Speaker 1: aren't available yet, and that's exactly what has happened with
26:56
Speaker 1: that new facility.
26:58
Speaker 5: I have a really interesting question here that comes from Terry.
27:02
Speaker 5: What is there that you regret during your tenure not
27:06
Speaker 5: doing or wish maybe you would have done differently. I've
27:08
Speaker 5: always been a guaranteed supporter of yours. The accomplishment that
27:12
Speaker 5: you achieved during your service is incredible. The mall is
27:15
Speaker 5: a great place. I enjoy sitting by the fire pits
27:17
Speaker 5: and boasting our city to visitors. Many accomplishments that you
27:20
Speaker 5: speak of, rightfully, So what about any regrets or something
27:24
Speaker 5: that you wish you would have done that you didn't do.
27:28
Speaker 1: You know, there are some, and I think I brought
27:31
Speaker 1: one up one day, which is minor and that was
27:34
Speaker 1: I just recalled one time I called out this cop
27:37
Speaker 1: at ninetieth and Dodge for shutting down the intersection during
27:40
Speaker 1: a snowstorm, and I'm like, why.
27:42
Speaker 4: Did I do that?
27:43
Speaker 1: I got criticized so much for that because, and I apologize,
27:46
Speaker 1: I wasn't there. I didn't understand what was going on.
27:51
Speaker 1: So but anyway, you know another thing that I would
27:54
Speaker 1: say that I regretted, and this is this some big things,
28:01
Speaker 1: but it's something that I did personally, is when I
28:05
Speaker 1: became mayor that the budget was supposed to be about
28:09
Speaker 1: fourteen million dollars short.
28:11
Speaker 4: I became mayor in June.
28:13
Speaker 1: I had to have the budget done into the council
28:15
Speaker 1: by August, and I thought, I have to set a
28:17
Speaker 1: really good example. And so what I did. I was
28:21
Speaker 1: still in the city Council. The city council sets the
28:25
Speaker 1: salary for the mayor and the city council for four years.
28:28
Speaker 1: Once you're in that term, you can't change it. But
28:31
Speaker 1: before I became mayor, I was still in the city Council.
28:34
Speaker 1: I brought the mayor's salary back in front of the
28:37
Speaker 1: council and I thought, if I'm going to have to
28:39
Speaker 1: really start slashing the budget. I have to set a
28:41
Speaker 1: good example, and I lowered my salary by ten percent
28:45
Speaker 1: and I froze it for four years. And I thought
28:48
Speaker 1: that that was a good move to make to show
28:52
Speaker 1: I will do it. If I'm going to have to
28:53
Speaker 1: do it to other employees and other city staff, I'm
28:56
Speaker 1: going to show by example that I could do that too.
29:00
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean, that just didn't go over
29:02
Speaker 1: well with people. And I was able to get that
29:06
Speaker 1: budget done, and actually that budget ended up having a
29:09
Speaker 1: surplus by the end of the year without cutting positions.
29:14
Speaker 1: But then now the mayor's salary is four years behind
29:19
Speaker 1: where it basically should be. You know, my last year
29:23
Speaker 1: I was mayor. The mayor gets paid about one hundred
29:27
Speaker 1: and eighteen thousand dollars a year. Now, that may seem
29:30
Speaker 1: like a pretty good salary, but compared to the other
29:32
Speaker 1: top fifty cities, it isn't. And I think, did I
29:35
Speaker 1: do something that really will harm the mayors in the
29:37
Speaker 1: future for what they get paid. So that is one
29:40
Speaker 1: thing that I did that I probably regret doing. And
29:45
Speaker 1: one other thing real quickly is I thought another thing
29:47
Speaker 1: I would do when I first became mayors, I thought,
29:50
Speaker 1: I don't need a city owned car.
29:53
Speaker 4: And every interesting, every mayor before.
29:56
Speaker 1: Me, from holl to fay Heed to PJ, they all
29:59
Speaker 1: have drivers, and they all had a city owned car
30:03
Speaker 1: that they would move around town in when they were
30:05
Speaker 1: doing city business. I thought, well, I will be different.
30:08
Speaker 1: I don't need security and I'm going to drive my
30:10
Speaker 1: own car. And I did that for four years. Well,
30:14
Speaker 1: sometimes I would have a driver, which was a police
30:16
Speaker 1: officer and sometimes not, but I ended up paying a
30:19
Speaker 1: lot of extra out of my own pocket insurance for
30:22
Speaker 1: multiple drivers.
30:23
Speaker 4: I had.
30:24
Speaker 1: Some of those police officers had some fender benders with
30:27
Speaker 1: my cars, and I paid for that. You know, I
30:30
Speaker 1: paid for all the gas. And I thought, okay, you know,
30:33
Speaker 1: after four years, I could see why mayors had a
30:37
Speaker 1: city owned car. I didn't care. I didn't want it fancy.
30:40
Speaker 1: And I said my second term, I'll take a city
30:43
Speaker 1: owned car. And I was criticized. I mean, people just
30:46
Speaker 1: criticized me bitterly, saying we don't we should not be
30:49
Speaker 1: buying you a car, and you should not be driving
30:52
Speaker 1: around a car that taxpayers paid for, when every other
30:54
Speaker 1: mayor before me had had that all along. And again
30:57
Speaker 1: I thought I was setting a really good example. But
31:00
Speaker 1: it kind of backfired on me when I thought, No,
31:03
Speaker 1: you know, the police would take my car through a
31:05
Speaker 1: car wash and tear the windshield wipers, and one would
31:09
Speaker 1: tore my rear view mirror off one time, and you know,
31:12
Speaker 1: and I had to pay for it myself. And I thought, Okay,
31:15
Speaker 1: I can understand why, but every other mayor did it
31:17
Speaker 1: before me. I thought I was trying to set a
31:19
Speaker 1: good example. It really didn't.
31:21
Speaker 5: That's very interesting. See this is the type of stuff
31:23
Speaker 5: that I like to know.
31:24
Speaker 6: That.
31:24
Speaker 5: That's very interesting. Okay, So I just had a cold
31:27
Speaker 5: brew over here, and I am so hungry. I am
31:30
Speaker 5: so hungry.
31:30
Speaker 4: Are you lit up over there now?
31:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm all fired up. I'm all I'm wired up
31:34
Speaker 5: and ready to go. But Ryan asked a very important question.
31:38
Speaker 5: Let's get through important questions here. Where in all of
31:41
Speaker 5: Omaha metro area is you is your favorite restaurants for
31:45
Speaker 5: Asian cuisine, barbecue, pizza, and a burger? Can you maybe
31:49
Speaker 5: give me two or three of your favorite places? Oh?
31:51
Speaker 1: Okay, I love for a burger. I love Barretts, which
31:57
Speaker 1: is down on Leavenworth. I loved I really like those
32:04
Speaker 1: for for for hamburgers. My husband is a ham. He
32:08
Speaker 1: loves hamburgers and he is on this quest for the
32:10
Speaker 1: perfect hamburger, and I think he found that one he
32:14
Speaker 1: really likes there. I will have to say not in Omaha.
32:17
Speaker 1: But there is a great restaurant that I go to
32:18
Speaker 1: about once a week in Ashland, and that's Rulemans. And
32:22
Speaker 1: you know, Ashland is not that far. It's way down.
32:24
Speaker 1: It's kind of by the where the great and outlet
32:25
Speaker 1: malls are down on six and they have great burgers
32:28
Speaker 1: and great steaks there. So I do like that. Phil
32:32
Speaker 1: Ruhlman owns that. And Willie Thesen the the father of
32:37
Speaker 1: Grandfather's Pizza. He's the one that helped put Rulmans together.
32:42
Speaker 1: But anyway, for pizza's, we're still in the quest for
32:45
Speaker 1: the best pizza I like. I particularly like Zeo's Pizza.
32:49
Speaker 1: I think there that's really good. And I like the
32:52
Speaker 1: There's Pison's. There's only one of those, and that's out
32:55
Speaker 1: on about one hundred and it's like on it's on
32:59
Speaker 1: Center where Center and L come together there by the
33:02
Speaker 1: railroad tracks by Bob Boozer. That's a really good one,
33:06
Speaker 1: I think. For pizza, so barbecue, I'm still hunting and
33:10
Speaker 1: I love barbecue. Yeah, and I'm still hunting for the
33:13
Speaker 1: best barbecue.
33:14
Speaker 5: So I lived in Kansas City for a few years
33:16
Speaker 5: for college, and I had some really good barbecue.
33:19
Speaker 1: Tell us what, you know, they talk about Kansas City
33:21
Speaker 1: barbecue and they talk about Saint Louis barbecue. What is
33:24
Speaker 1: Kansas City barbecue? What's the difference?
33:26
Speaker 2: I don't know.
33:26
Speaker 5: You know, I'm a college kid, so going and getting
33:27
Speaker 5: barbecue isn't like a common occurrence.
33:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like.
33:30
Speaker 1: Going through a drive through for you probably.
33:34
Speaker 2: Yeah. Q thirty nine was pretty good. I like Joe's.
33:37
Speaker 2: It's okay.
33:38
Speaker 5: Joe's is kind of like the the I don't want
33:41
Speaker 5: to say fast barbecue, not to diminish it, but it's
33:44
Speaker 5: more common chain franchise. Okay, but real question, real quick
33:48
Speaker 5: question one more real quick. I love Charleston's.
33:51
Speaker 2: Charleston's. You said that the other day.
33:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, I really love it.
33:53
Speaker 1: And you know, they have a new Charleston's now, which
33:55
Speaker 1: is at Heartwood Preserve on between Dodge and Pacific one
33:58
Speaker 1: hundred and forty four. I love that place. I mean,
34:01
Speaker 1: I love salmon, and they have the best salmon in
34:03
Speaker 1: the world there, and it smells good in there. It
34:05
Speaker 1: smells like a wood fire. I love Charleston's a lot ruben.
34:08
Speaker 5: Are you a fan of the ruben? We are home
34:12
Speaker 5: of the ruben.
34:12
Speaker 4: It's debatable, but we will claim it.
34:15
Speaker 2: Will claim it, We.
34:16
Speaker 1: Will claim it. And one of the best rubens. Well,
34:19
Speaker 1: I've had a really good ruben at Barrett's, but a
34:22
Speaker 1: really good Ruben at the Cottonwood. Yes, because that's where
34:26
Speaker 1: they claim the ruben was invented.
34:28
Speaker 4: Down in the basement.
34:29
Speaker 1: Now the Crescent Moon across the street claimed they are
34:32
Speaker 1: where the ruben was invented. But both of those they
34:36
Speaker 1: are together. They both have great rubens, but so does Barretts.
34:39
Speaker 2: Yes, that one's good too.
34:40
Speaker 5: And then even across the street over here in the
34:43
Speaker 5: historic Dundee Dundee Dell has a very very good rubens.
34:47
Speaker 4: Right across the street. We should head on over.
34:49
Speaker 3: I know.
34:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds like a great lunch. Jean Stouth. Here
34:53
Speaker 2: we are.
34:54
Speaker 1: And during the break we were talking about food again.
34:57
Speaker 1: Obviously we're hungry, yes, but we forgot to mention. I
35:00
Speaker 1: forgot to mention Runza runs up. I tell you, as
35:04
Speaker 1: far as a fast food hamburger, Runzas are good. And
35:08
Speaker 1: when we had the USA swim trails here the swimmers
35:10
Speaker 1: would beg for them to bring huge boxes full of runs,
35:15
Speaker 1: as they loved them. But we can't forget runza's. And
35:19
Speaker 1: I think, as far as I think I did say
35:22
Speaker 1: Godfather's pizza, I think I said that. Yeah, that somebody
35:28
Speaker 1: called and corrected this, that I said something wrong, But anyway,
35:31
Speaker 1: I know what I'm talking about.
35:32
Speaker 4: I remember come to peace.
35:33
Speaker 5: One time when I was a kid, my dad took
35:35
Speaker 5: me to a Nebraska Iowa game at Memorial Stadium. It
35:38
Speaker 5: was cold, gross, wet, slushy snow, and they sell runza
35:42
Speaker 5: at Memorial Stadium and he bought me two runzas and
35:45
Speaker 5: I shoved them in my sweatshirt pocket and it was handwarmers.
35:49
Speaker 4: Oh good, idea dad.
35:51
Speaker 1: Did your dad think of that?
35:53
Speaker 2: Yeah?
35:53
Speaker 5: I don't know if it was something that happens normally,
35:56
Speaker 5: but I just remember he shoved two runs in my
35:58
Speaker 5: pocket and boom.
36:00
Speaker 1: I hope you didn't take your hands out of your
36:01
Speaker 1: pocket because they probably were greasy.
36:03
Speaker 2: Yeah they might have been, but you know what my
36:05
Speaker 2: hands were more, my feet were. My hands were well.
36:07
Speaker 4: I hope you didn't put runs in your ship.
36:10
Speaker 1: Runs is are?
36:10
Speaker 4: I mean runs? It is really good.
36:12
Speaker 1: I mean because you could tell it's homemade, and you
36:14
Speaker 1: could tell you could tell with the burgers, and Mike,
36:17
Speaker 1: like I said, my husband's on this quest for the
36:19
Speaker 1: perfect burger and he loves runs of burgers.
36:21
Speaker 2: So very interesting.
36:23
Speaker 5: Let's get to one caller here, Michael, You're on news
36:25
Speaker 5: radio eleven ten KFAB with Jean Stuth.
36:29
Speaker 3: Oh Mayor, I just wanted to tell you how much
36:32
Speaker 3: I really enjoy your show. Great deal, thank you. Oh yeah,
36:37
Speaker 3: And I mean, learning so much about city government. And
36:41
Speaker 3: I think the reason I enjoyed your show is also
36:46
Speaker 3: one of the reasons why you haven't gotten much of
36:50
Speaker 3: a reach out from the current mayor or why he
36:54
Speaker 3: doesn't want people in his administration to come on your program.
36:58
Speaker 3: I think that reason is that I think there's just
37:01
Speaker 3: a discomfort with the depth of your knowledge. I mean,
37:05
Speaker 3: it's the contrast is so stark that I think it
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Speaker 3: probably discombobulates him a bit. I think, I mean that
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Speaker 3: would be my that would be my guess. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I'm still in you know, semi lowe. I don't know,
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Speaker 3: just a semi shock that how you could have lost
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Speaker 3: that election, Like you said, too many people stayed home.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's just it's just to me, that's a
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Speaker 3: reminder that anything can happen inflectus. Good lord, Well thanks.
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Speaker 2: For your comment.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you for saying that. Thanks for your comment.
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Speaker 1: You know it could be insecurities, but I will for
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Speaker 1: the mayor. But you know, I mean, good Lord, I
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Speaker 1: was mayor for twelve years. He's been mayor for ten months.
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Speaker 1: I should know what's going on. I mean I really should.
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Speaker 1: And that's not in any way trying to make him insecure.
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Speaker 1: And when I was mayor for ten months, I had
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Speaker 1: a lot to learn too, So why not, you know,
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Speaker 1: let your directors, who are very knowledgeable and very good
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Speaker 1: at what they do, get out there and say the
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Speaker 1: things that that would help people understand what is going on.
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Speaker 1: And again, yes, you know, I'm not one I lost
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Speaker 1: the race. That's all there is to it. I'm not
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Speaker 1: one that's gonna sit out there and go you know,
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Speaker 1: I was cheated out of that race or it was unfair.
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Speaker 1: It was a fair election. You know the results. I
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Speaker 1: accept it, and I'm you know, I'm more than ready
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Speaker 1: to move on. I loved being mayor. I could have
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Speaker 1: been mayor four more years because I knew what I
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Speaker 1: was doing. But I love being retired too, and it's
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Speaker 1: fun doing this this little radio show too.
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Speaker 4: So I'm really fine where I'm at.
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Speaker 1: But i still feel like I know the directors, I
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Speaker 1: know this city, and let's share what is going on
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Speaker 1: with all of all of Omaha, and I try to
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Speaker 1: hide or restrict people from what they can say.
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Speaker 5: Curtis sent an email saying Jay's Smokehouse has the best
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Speaker 5: barbecue here in town and some of the best burgers.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I'll have to try it.
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Speaker 5: Very interesting, Yes, Jays Okay, Jay's like j apostrophe s
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Speaker 5: I am glad.
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Speaker 1: I am glad you said that because thank you for
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Speaker 1: something we need to check out.
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Speaker 5: Yes, what about you said something to me earlier about
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Speaker 5: a guess we have coming on tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Yes, now, now this is interesting and I want you
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Speaker 1: all to tune in because Bob Stuby, who is the
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Speaker 1: public Works director and has been the public Works director
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Speaker 1: since two thousand and five for twenty one years. He
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Speaker 1: was hired by Mayor Fayhee. Good job, Mayor fay Heey.
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Speaker 1: Bob is a He is great. He is a friend
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Speaker 1: of mine. I've worked with him for sixteen years. For
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Speaker 1: the time that I was on the city council too.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's a trusted advisor. He's he was a
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Speaker 1: key member of my cabinet and he still is a
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Speaker 1: public works director. He is being allowed to come on
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Speaker 1: tomorrow because Bob is retiring in the summer and after
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Speaker 1: a long career. He is running for the mayor of Papillion.
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Speaker 1: And I invited Bob on and to ask him to
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Speaker 1: talk about running for mayor and just talk about his
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Speaker 1: career in general, because the projects and things he has
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Speaker 1: been involved with, I mean, it's amazing and I want
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Speaker 1: him to talk about it. We did have him scheduled
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, I know the mayor told
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Speaker 1: him he couldn't come on, and then he went back
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Speaker 1: and talked to the mayor and the mayor said he
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Speaker 1: could come on, but he could not talk about city issues. Well,
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Speaker 1: he's going to talk about his career tomorrow and he's
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Speaker 1: going to talk about what he wants to do next.
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Speaker 1: He's a great guy and I think you'll want to
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Speaker 1: listen in because I think he's been involved in so
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Speaker 1: much and has such historical knowledge of this city and
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Speaker 1: big things from the flood to the riverfront to the
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Speaker 1: sewer project, really interesting guy, and he's going to be
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Speaker 1: in the studio tomorrow, so listen in.
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Speaker 5: Yes, that'll be a very very interesting interview. Hopefully we
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Speaker 5: can get to the bottom of a lot of different things.
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Speaker 5: Like we always say here on the KFA B comment line,
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Speaker 5: we love to hear your input. We love to hear questions,
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Speaker 5: comments and concerns. We don't want to just talk about
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Speaker 5: the streetcar every day, but you guys love to hear
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Speaker 5: about it. Or maybe I should say you guys love
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Speaker 5: we're on other shows throughout the day, email us. It
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Speaker 5: comes to my email and we can tackle it at
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Speaker 5: a different time. I have lots of good questions for
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Speaker 5: tomorrow the rest of the week, so go ahead and
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Speaker 5: add those up.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for spending time with us, and thanks for listening.
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