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CWS Experience and Patriotism · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: Also want to tell people.
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Speaker 2: I haven't mentioned this before, but I do have people say, Hey,
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Speaker 2: I missed your show. I'd like to hear it. Where
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Speaker 2: can I hear it? And we usually have the podcast up.
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Speaker 2: That's Peyton's job. He usually has it up by noon
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Speaker 2: or so. Yes, every single one is podcasted. You can
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Speaker 2: Genies author podcast page.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and so you.
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Speaker 2: Can listen if you really hear how great this show
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Speaker 2: has been all these comments. This is so much fun
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Speaker 2: doing this show.
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Speaker 1: But wow, what a.
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Speaker 2: Weekend for sports. First of all, New York City is
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Speaker 2: going crazy today because the knixt one, the NBA Championship,
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Speaker 2: which they are thrilled about. World Cup, this is what
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Speaker 2: Peyton is really excited about too. But the USA versus
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Speaker 2: Paraguay four to one? Holy cow? Is that really the
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Speaker 2: highest scoring soccer game in the World Cup that I've
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Speaker 2: heard of?
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Speaker 3: That is the most goals that the United States has
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Speaker 3: ever scored in a USA game.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you can't get much better than that. That
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Speaker 2: was pretty much fun to be watching that. And then
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Speaker 2: of course in town we have the College World Series
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Speaker 2: and another event going on that Scott mentioned this morning
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Speaker 2: that a lot of people without kids or younger kids
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Speaker 2: that play baseball don't realize, but the Slumpbusters every year
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Speaker 2: during the College World Series, the Slump Busters is happening
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Speaker 2: here in Omaha with more than about seven hundred teams
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Speaker 2: from all over the country Little League Baseball. So that
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Speaker 2: is why our hotels are full to the brown I mean,
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Speaker 2: and some of these I know. Lucy was saying, where
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Speaker 2: do all these people stay everywhere? I mean, they're filling
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Speaker 2: up the hotels and sarpy over in Council Bluffs. I mean,
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Speaker 2: this is a big event for Omaha here to have
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Speaker 2: the Slumpbusters. And you know Peyton Manning I mentioned before,
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Speaker 2: I've met him several times when Tennessee is playing. He
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Speaker 2: comes and sits and watches the College World Series and
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Speaker 2: here this year, but his son plays in the Slumpbusters,
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Speaker 2: so he's usually here listening to that too. Something I
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Speaker 2: wanted to mention. I talked about it last week, but
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Speaker 2: I think it's worth mentioning again in case people weren't listening.
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Speaker 2: But we did have quite a few comments and calls
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Speaker 2: last week about it's getting too expensive for me to
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Speaker 2: go to the College World Series in Omaha. You give
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Speaker 2: all your tickets away to the teams or the season
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Speaker 2: ticket holders, and there's no more tickets for the people
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Speaker 2: that live in Omaha.
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Speaker 1: And I you know, that's really not true.
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Speaker 2: And I want to go over this again just so
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Speaker 2: people know I think it's important. But keep in mind
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Speaker 2: that stadium, Charles Schwab has twenty four thousand seats in
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Speaker 2: that stadium. Season ticket holders occupy eleven four hundred of those,
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Speaker 2: so less than half are season ticket holders. Of those
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Speaker 2: season ticket holders, sixty eight percent are from Omaha and
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Speaker 2: the surrounding area. And a lot of these and tickets
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Speaker 2: are generational. They are passed from decade to get you know,
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Speaker 2: from family to family all the way down, and so
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Speaker 2: generations of families hold these season tickets. So a lot
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Speaker 2: of those season ticket holders are from the Omaha in
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Speaker 2: Omaha area. Each time a team plays, the two teams
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Speaker 2: that are playing that day each gets seven hundred tickets,
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Speaker 2: So that is fourteen hundred out of the twenty four
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Speaker 2: thousand go to the teams. And of course when the
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Speaker 2: next team comes and that team gets seven hundred, there
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Speaker 2: are a lot of seats out in the outfield. That
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Speaker 2: leaves about five thousand four hundred seats in the outfield.
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Speaker 2: And you know, there are some seats in that three
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Speaker 2: hundred level which are high up, but a lot of
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Speaker 2: people love those seats because it's a great view and
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Speaker 2: they are on sale from fifteen dollars up. And so
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Speaker 2: there are plenty of seats and those fifty four hundred
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Speaker 2: seats in the outfield seats. Now, people say, well, but
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Speaker 2: I have to go online to the NCUBA and people
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Speaker 2: are selling these tickets for these incredible amounts. If you
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Speaker 2: go down to the stadium to the box office, they
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Speaker 2: sell at face value. So that's what the College World
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Speaker 2: Series recommends. That's what we all recommend. If you want
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Speaker 2: a seat and you want to play, pay face value
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Speaker 2: for it. If you make the a little bit of
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Speaker 2: extra effort to go down to the stadium, you can
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Speaker 2: get tickets. Still, So there is plenty of seats for
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Speaker 2: folks in Omaha. Now, I have two season tickets that
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Speaker 2: I have I've had for thirteen years now that I
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Speaker 2: buy and they're right on the first baseline and they're
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Speaker 2: really they're really good seats. But I mean, I sure
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Speaker 2: don't go online and sell them if I can't go.
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Speaker 2: So some people tend to do that, but others don't.
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Speaker 2: And you know, as the teams are eliminated then and
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Speaker 2: those teams their tickets go back to the box office.
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Speaker 2: So more and more tickets are available as the teams
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Speaker 2: are eliminated as we move on. So great, great things
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Speaker 2: for Omaha with the College World Series. And you were
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Speaker 2: down there last night, tell me what you thought about it.
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Speaker 3: I was. I thought it was super great. My fiance
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Speaker 3: and I we got down there just a little bit
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Speaker 3: early because I do not like to feel stressed and
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Speaker 3: anxious at these events.
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Speaker 4: I want to get down there. I want to enjoy myself.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to be rushed trying to park and
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Speaker 3: work my way around the ballpark. And we found our
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Speaker 3: seats and we sat next to this really awesome couple
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Speaker 3: from West Virginia. They have season tickets to West Virginia
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Speaker 3: football games, but they've never been to a West Virginia
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Speaker 3: baseball game, never been to Omaha.
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Speaker 4: And they sat next to us, and.
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Speaker 3: This couple was probably seventy five eighty years old, just
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Speaker 3: a sweet West Virginia couple. And they go to sit
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Speaker 3: down and they pull rockos jello shots out of every
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Speaker 3: single pocket they have. They put about twelve Rocos jello
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Speaker 3: shots and the cupholders in front of us, and his
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Speaker 3: name was Robbie. He looks over at him, he goes, Peyton,
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Speaker 3: we're not gonna We're not gonna use all these shots.
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Speaker 4: You're gonna have to help us out here. And we're like, Robbie,
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Speaker 4: what do you do with all those jello shots?
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Speaker 2: Those jello shots are really I mean, they have become famous.
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Speaker 2: In part of the College World series, I sat next
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Speaker 2: to a guy yesterday and some of his friends name.
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Speaker 2: His name was Eric, and he was from Old Miss,
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Speaker 2: and you know, he said he's been coming here for
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Speaker 2: years too, and really really enjoying it.
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Speaker 1: Of course they've been eliminated now.
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Speaker 2: So I did get his number because I told him
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Speaker 2: if I had some tickets available, I'd be happy to
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Speaker 2: let him have him. But I guess Eric, sorry, if
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Speaker 2: you're listening, I guess you're gonna be heading home today
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Speaker 2: because Old Miss has been eliminated.
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Speaker 1: But what a group of nice people.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, and I just think it's so cool
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Speaker 3: interacting with those people that have I mean, in my case,
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Speaker 3: Robbie from West Virginia never been to Omaha before. I
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Speaker 3: just am glad that the impression of the city was
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Speaker 3: so positive.
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Speaker 1: And I hear that too.
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Speaker 2: And I've said this before what I enjoy the College
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Speaker 2: World series because I like to talk to people from
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Speaker 2: out of town and get their opinion of Omaha. And
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Speaker 2: the two things I heard the most the last twelve
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Speaker 2: years when I was there was I feel so safe
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Speaker 2: here and it's so clean. And I always say, if
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Speaker 2: American have a safe, clean city, that's it. You hit
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Speaker 2: a home run right there, and that was a pun.
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Speaker 2: I didn't even mean that, but I think that that's
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Speaker 2: really good. Now, speaking of feeling safe, if you listen
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Speaker 2: to the scanner, there was a little riff raff going
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Speaker 2: on last night downtown about eleventh and Farnham Street. I
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Speaker 2: did talk to the chief this morning brief just briefly
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Speaker 2: about it and ask if it was the same little
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Speaker 2: teens that have been going downtown causing some little issues
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Speaker 2: here and there, and he said, you know, there was
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Speaker 2: some very very large crowds down there last night, but
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Speaker 2: there was a very large police presence down there last
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Speaker 2: night too, and so you expect that it's hard to
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Speaker 2: tell if this was the younger group because so many
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Speaker 2: people that were here from out of town. It was
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Speaker 2: really hard to tell. It looks like it was more
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Speaker 2: adults than the younger kids this time. But the chief
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Speaker 2: said it was not out of control. The fights were sporadic.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't anything like that. It happened, you know, several
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Speaker 2: weeks ago downtown, and so I think I want the
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Speaker 2: message I want to give to people is when you
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Speaker 2: get that many people in a crowd. We just talked
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Speaker 2: about the slumpbusters here, the college World Series, people a
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Speaker 2: lot of people from out of town that had never
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Speaker 2: been here before.
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Speaker 1: Things can happen.
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Speaker 2: But we do have a very very large police presence,
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Speaker 2: not only at the game and around the stadium but
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Speaker 2: downtown to trying to keep everybody safe. And so I
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Speaker 2: think the incident last night, like the chief said, it
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Speaker 2: was a bit sporadic, but it was not out of control.
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Speaker 2: And although there was a lot of people down there,
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Speaker 2: there was all so a lot of police presence down there,
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Speaker 2: and I think everybody feels pretty darn safe. The two
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Speaker 2: men that I talked to the last two days down
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Speaker 2: at the games that were sitting right next to me,
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Speaker 2: both of them said, I've never felt unsafe in Omaha.
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Speaker 2: You know, I always feel really comfortable being here and
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Speaker 2: walking around, so that is a good thing too. So boy,
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Speaker 2: we have a lot going on. Once again. That economic
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Speaker 2: impact that the College World Series brings in to the
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Speaker 2: city of Omaha, which benefits us all that live here,
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Speaker 2: is about one hundred and forty three million dollars for
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Speaker 2: this for each season for the ten day sessions of
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Speaker 2: the game. The publicity value because we are on the
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Speaker 2: news so much, is valued at over two billion dollars
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Speaker 2: of people getting to know Omaha without having to basically
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Speaker 2: pay for a commercial to let people know what we
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Speaker 2: have here, So that is really amazing. They hire about
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Speaker 2: fifteen hundred full time positions each year for the College
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Speaker 2: World Series. Of course they start before the games. Each
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Speaker 2: have a lot of different responsibilities. But I mean there
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Speaker 2: are people everywhere. I was just kind of noticing the
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Speaker 2: extra people that are hired, and they are everywhere, from
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Speaker 2: on each gate, on the doors, everything to help people
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Speaker 2: as much as they possibly can. Selling cotton candy my favorite.
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Speaker 2: I have to have one a day, really, a cotton candy.
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Speaker 2: That's what you're reaching for first, Yes.
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Speaker 1: One a day, every day, that's my rule. I love
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Speaker 1: cotton candy.
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Speaker 2: But it was I mean It was really really good,
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Speaker 2: I think, and so it's very, very valuable to the
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Speaker 2: city of Omaha. So I want to hear your comments,
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Speaker 2: if you've been down there, what you think about it.
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Speaker 2: Guess what, I have a story about the world famous Max,
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Speaker 2: my six year old grandson.
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Speaker 4: World famous Max. Let's hear it.
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Speaker 1: He is world famous.
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Speaker 2: So last night I did not go to the game
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Speaker 2: because my daughter in law, Elena, and my two grand sons,
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Speaker 2: who are Calvin and Theo from Cincinnati, are here. So
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Speaker 2: my daughter wanted to have a big barbecue at her
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Speaker 2: house last night, and so that's why I didn't go
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Speaker 2: to the game last night. I was at the one
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Speaker 2: o'clock game yesterday, but anyway, I was going to go
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Speaker 2: all out, and I made homemade brownies and I had
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Speaker 2: popsicles to bring them, and I had games for the
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Speaker 2: kids and everything. So I walk in the door and
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Speaker 2: Max is standing there without saying hi to me. He says,
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Speaker 2: my mom told me I'm not supposed to tell you something,
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Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, okay, tell me no. She told
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Speaker 2: me not to tell you, And I said, come on,
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Speaker 2: I'm your grandma, you can tell me.
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Speaker 4: You already brought it up. You're there. You got the
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Speaker 4: crowbar there already.
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Speaker 1: I'm grandma. Tell me what did she say? What did
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Speaker 1: she say?
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Speaker 2: Not to tell me? And he goes, I don't like brownies. Oh,
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Speaker 2: And I go, all right, that's okay. Do you like popsicles?
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Speaker 2: And he said yes, I said I brought popsicles. He goes,
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Speaker 2: We're good, We're good, We're calling even He.
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Speaker 1: Is just so funny.
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Speaker 2: I tell you that he had this look on his
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Speaker 2: like I've got something.
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Speaker 1: To tell you and it's a secret.
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Speaker 2: But that's Max. So we had a good time last
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Speaker 2: night with my four grandkids together.
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Speaker 4: That's a really good story of Jeane.
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Speaker 3: I got a few phone calls on the line, but
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Speaker 3: one thing I did want to bring up really quickly,
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Speaker 3: and I'm not really going to talk about the fight,
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Speaker 3: but I just want to bring up the UFC White
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Speaker 3: House Freedom two point fifty that took place yesterday last night.
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Speaker 3: It was a UFC fight on the south lawn of
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Speaker 3: the White House. And I don't care about the fight,
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Speaker 3: you know, it's cool, but there was during the national anthem,
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Speaker 3: a twelve fighter jet flyover with a bald eagle. You
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Speaker 3: see Trump in the background. He's holding a salute and
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Speaker 3: It just gave Sons such a sense of pride and
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Speaker 3: nationalism and patriotism, patriotism. There was so much controversy around
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Speaker 3: this for some reason. I don't really know why, but
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Speaker 3: I just thought it was so cool. And I was
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Speaker 3: watched the flyover back on video and it just gave
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Speaker 3: me the goosebumps. It just was so awesome.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I feel the same way.
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Speaker 2: And people talk about patriotism, what I mean, what does
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Speaker 2: patriotism mean to you? I mean, to me, patriotism is
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Speaker 2: those who love their country, would fight for their country
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Speaker 2: and would die for their country. That's a patriot. And
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Speaker 2: you know, if people would say, would you do that, Gene,
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Speaker 2: I would say in a New York minute, I mean
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Speaker 2: I would not have any hesitation at all to say yes,
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Speaker 2: I would fight for this country. And those that are
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Speaker 2: saying I'm out of here, I hate that this country
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Speaker 2: and it baffles me because of what we have here
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Speaker 2: and the patriotism that we still have here. I swear
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Speaker 2: every time I hear that national anthem, and I did
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Speaker 2: it at the ballpark when I've been there then since Friday,
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Speaker 2: it sends chills up my back when I hear the
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Speaker 2: national an them being played, and everybody gets up and
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Speaker 2: puts their hand over their heart, and I just think
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Speaker 2: it's amazing what we have here, what we have fought
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Speaker 2: for here, and what we have here. And so many
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Speaker 2: now are so acting like they are so disillusioned with
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Speaker 2: what is going on in our country. It's because they
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Speaker 2: don't like the president.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: I mean there's been plenty of presidents in the past
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Speaker 2: that people weren't happy with too, But look at what
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Speaker 2: we have here, and look at what we fought for.
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Speaker 2: And once again I have asked, as our two hundred
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Speaker 2: and fiftieth is coming up, who do you think is
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Speaker 2: the greatest president? I mentioned three. I mentioned Lincoln, Washington,
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Speaker 2: and Ronald Reagan. I'd love to hear who you think
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Speaker 2: is the greatest president. Somebody called in the other day
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Speaker 2: and said Richard Nixon, which kind of surprised me because
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Speaker 2: there was this little thing called Watergate. But he did
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Speaker 2: he did stop the Vietnam War. So I'm really interested
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Speaker 2: in what people think. I still go back to Ronald Reagan.
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Speaker 2: He was so witty. Is the other thing. He had
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Speaker 2: this relationship with Tip O'Neill, who was the speaker. He
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Speaker 2: was a Democrat, Reagan, of course, was the Republican They
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Speaker 2: fought all the time. I mean, they didn't agree with everything.
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Speaker 2: They fought all the time, but then they go out
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Speaker 2: to lunch and they would have it. They would have
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Speaker 2: a decent conversation with each other.
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Speaker 1: But I just.
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Speaker 2: Remembered how witty Reagan was. And I remembered a story
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Speaker 2: after he was the assassination attempt, which was in nineteen
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Speaker 2: eighty one, I believe, and they said the doctors reported
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Speaker 2: two things that I thought were funny. They said that
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Speaker 2: when he was laying on the gurney he was shot critically,
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Speaker 2: he hadn't gone to surgery yet, and he just kind
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Speaker 2: of yelled at and said, I hope you all are
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Speaker 2: Republicans in this room. And they said one of the
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Speaker 2: doctors said, mister President, were all Republicans today. But the
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Speaker 2: other thing they said he said is he lifted himself
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Speaker 2: up on his elbows, still on the gurney before surgery,
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Speaker 2: and he said, considering all things, I'd rather be in
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Speaker 2: Philadelphia today. So, I mean, he just comes up with
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Speaker 2: these things that made him so likable, And I think
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Speaker 2: that that's the issue that we're having today. There's there's
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Speaker 2: people that don't like our current president's personality. Okay, fine,
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Speaker 2: but let's look at what we have and let's look
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Speaker 2: at what he's accomplishing.
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Speaker 4: This is the cafab comment line. We want to hear
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Speaker 3: Four zero two five five eight eleven ten comment at
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Speaker 3: phone lines. You are now live with Gene Stouthart here
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Speaker 3: on eleven ten KFAB Charlie, welcome in.
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Speaker 5: Good morning you, your honor.
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Speaker 6: How are you.
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Speaker 7: It's been a long time.
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Speaker 1: I'm very good.
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Speaker 7: How are you well? City hall isn't the same in my.
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Speaker 1: Opinion, I recognize your voice. You were down at city hall. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I do you remember?
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Speaker 7: You remember public polls? Charlie, Yes, I do. Uh, your honor,
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Speaker 7: I've got a quick question. We used to uh every
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Speaker 7: year you used to put on the town hall meetings.
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 7: Are they doing that anymore?
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you brought because I love doing them,
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Speaker 2: and I mentioned that before on this show. I did
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Speaker 2: over seventy town hall meetings. And you know how town
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Speaker 2: hall meetings have deteriorated recently in the recent years. So
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Speaker 2: I mean people go and they're just rabbit with screaming
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Speaker 2: and yelling at who's ever putting themselves out there to
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Speaker 2: do the town hall meeting.
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Speaker 1: I like doing them.
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Speaker 2: I mean I like being able to look at people
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Speaker 2: face to face and answer their questions. Whether Mayor Ewing
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Speaker 2: is going to be doing the town halls or not,
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean that's a question for Mayor Ewing.
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Speaker 2: I did seven every fall, which was that one in
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Speaker 2: each city council district. There's seven city council districts. And
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Speaker 2: I would also invite the city council member and invite
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Speaker 2: them to speak a little and it was never scripted.
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Speaker 2: I would give a little mini state of the City
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Speaker 2: address and then just open it up for questions. And
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Speaker 2: we just took the questions as they came. And a
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Speaker 2: lot of times people come to town hall meetings not
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Speaker 2: to say, oh, you're doing a good job. They come
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Speaker 2: to town hall meetings because they have an issue or
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Speaker 2: they want an answer for something.
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Speaker 1: And I enjoyed them. My staff. If they had to sit.
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Speaker 2: There listen to me for seven different nights in a row,
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Speaker 2: sometimes we're saying to me, oh, are we doing those again?
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Speaker 1: Yes we are.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know if maryor Ewing is going to
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Speaker 2: be doing those I did him in the fall. I
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Speaker 2: have not heard that he was going to do any
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Speaker 2: of those.
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Speaker 7: I haven't seen any notice where they're having them, and
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Speaker 7: so I thought i'd ask you this morning.
18:30
Speaker 2: I you know, that is definitely a question for the
18:33
Speaker 2: mayor's office. I think he had scheduled some sort of
18:38
Speaker 2: of a town hall I don't even remember what it was,
18:41
Speaker 2: but but not anything like one of these city council districts.
18:45
Speaker 2: So hopefully they will continue that because I think it's
18:50
Speaker 2: just a great opportunity for people to get out. And
18:53
Speaker 2: I know, Charlie, you attended some of ours. I mean, well,
18:57
Speaker 2: there you go. Thank you for doing that. But you know,
19:00
Speaker 2: sometimes we would have just a scattering of people, and
19:02
Speaker 2: sometimes we would have three hundred people.
19:04
Speaker 1: We'd fill up a room. So I do.
19:09
Speaker 7: Yes, people brought to you and you know, uh, your
19:13
Speaker 7: staff responded to a whole lot of that. Yeah, again,
19:16
Speaker 7: I miss that. Well like to bring up.
19:19
Speaker 1: Thanks for bringing that up.
19:20
Speaker 2: And you know, the other thing which I enjoyed about
19:22
Speaker 2: them is every city council district. That's why I like
19:26
Speaker 2: getting into the districts was so different, because there would
19:29
Speaker 2: be one issue that was an absolute crisis in one
19:33
Speaker 2: city council district, and it wasn't even an issue in another.
19:36
Speaker 2: It was some other issue. And that's why I thought
19:38
Speaker 2: it was so valuable, because you've got to get out
19:40
Speaker 2: there and see what people are thinking in all of
19:42
Speaker 2: those seven different districts, and so I hope they.
19:45
Speaker 1: Keep them up. Thanks for calling, though, Charlie.
19:47
Speaker 7: Good to hear from you, and thanks for your time.
19:49
Speaker 3: Thank you speaking of issues that people want to bring up.
19:53
Speaker 3: Here we are on the Cafe B comment line. Jeff,
19:55
Speaker 3: you are live with Jean Stouth.
19:58
Speaker 1: Good morning.
19:59
Speaker 8: Hey there, Hey, I have a I guess the question
20:04
Speaker 8: in a comment the uh the streets around you know,
20:06
Speaker 8: everyone always talks about uh, you know, construction season, and
20:11
Speaker 8: you have the potholes. And I've lived here in my
20:13
Speaker 8: whole life. I understand the seasons. I understand salt on
20:16
Speaker 8: the roads. But when I drive around town, there are
20:20
Speaker 8: certain roads that have been poured a long time ago
20:23
Speaker 8: to put up with the same salt the same seasons,
20:26
Speaker 8: and they look terrific. And then there's other ones. Fort Street,
20:30
Speaker 8: for example, Ford. You know it was fored and then
20:33
Speaker 8: it's immediately the concrete just doesn't last, starts looking like craft.
20:39
Speaker 8: And I know there's at least one vendor here in
20:41
Speaker 8: town that was notorious for cutting corners on on their
20:46
Speaker 8: pores to save it, to save money, to basically, you know,
20:51
Speaker 8: pull one over on the taxpayers. So there's two things.
20:56
Speaker 8: What are we doing to check that they're doing their job?
20:59
Speaker 8: What are we doing to hold them accountable when they're
21:03
Speaker 8: the pores that they're putting down on our streets are
21:06
Speaker 8: not lasting? And why are we not using a concrete blend,
21:13
Speaker 8: an appropriate concrete blend.
21:15
Speaker 5: For extreme durability on our.
21:17
Speaker 8: Streets, considering the where and the seasons and the salt,
21:21
Speaker 8: so once it's down, we don't have to pay for
21:24
Speaker 8: people to come back and patch potholes that don't last,
21:27
Speaker 8: or resurface with all asphalt that doesn't last.
21:30
Speaker 5: And things like that.
21:32
Speaker 1: Great question.
21:33
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm writing down things like a million miles
21:36
Speaker 2: an hour because I can answer pretty much everything you
21:38
Speaker 2: ask about. Okay, we'll start with this. There was probably
21:42
Speaker 2: there was a period. I would say it was at
21:45
Speaker 2: least at least fifteen years ago, and concrete streets should
21:50
Speaker 2: last at least twenty years or more. But about fifteen
21:53
Speaker 2: years ago that the recipe that the City of Omaha
21:58
Speaker 2: was using. And I will go back to that rest
22:00
Speaker 2: in a minute, but it was basically what the state
22:03
Speaker 2: was using, and it contained a composite in the concrete
22:08
Speaker 2: that the ash, the soda ash that was in there
22:10
Speaker 2: that ended up having some properties that were causing the
22:15
Speaker 2: concrete once it was set to peel. And you know what,
22:19
Speaker 2: and I can verify this because I had my driveway
22:22
Speaker 2: redone at that period of time, and my driveway is
22:26
Speaker 2: doing the same thing.
22:27
Speaker 1: It is peeling.
22:28
Speaker 2: They have they have since then adjusted that the recipe
22:33
Speaker 2: comes from the City of Omaha. And every job that
22:39
Speaker 2: the City of Omaha bids out and different companies bid
22:43
Speaker 2: on and then get the bid and do the work,
22:45
Speaker 2: they have to use the City of Omaha's recipe. It's
22:49
Speaker 2: not just what the individual vendors or concrete companies give them.
22:54
Speaker 2: The City of Omaha determines that and they test that concrete.
22:58
Speaker 2: No matter what road project it is, they will go
23:01
Speaker 2: out there and they will test the concrete and they
23:04
Speaker 2: will make it sure that it contains the ingredients I'll
23:08
Speaker 2: call them the materials that the City of Omaha specifies.
23:14
Speaker 2: So it's not up to the vendor of what is
23:17
Speaker 2: in the concrete. It is up to the City of Omaha. Now,
23:20
Speaker 2: what the City of Omaha does is every two years
23:25
Speaker 2: they have a group and it includes scientists, vendors, suppliers,
23:31
Speaker 2: people from the universities that look at what our mix
23:35
Speaker 2: is and they are always wanting to make it more durable,
23:40
Speaker 2: to see if there's anything they could do to make
23:42
Speaker 2: it more durable. That recommendation comes every two years. It
23:46
Speaker 2: goes to the city council for approval. Now I do
23:49
Speaker 2: remember this. I do remember when I was campaigning over
23:52
Speaker 2: a year ago to get for re election, one of
23:57
Speaker 2: the issues that current maryor John Ewing kept on saying
24:00
Speaker 2: to people is it was the recipe that the city
24:05
Speaker 2: was using for concrete that was causing this to happen,
24:08
Speaker 2: and he was going to come up with a new recipe.
24:11
Speaker 2: Now we know better than that, okay, because the again,
24:14
Speaker 2: the recipe is reevaluated every two years, it's approved by
24:17
Speaker 2: the city council. It had just been done and Marrying
24:21
Speaker 2: has not come up with his own new recipe at all.
24:24
Speaker 2: The intent is always to make it more durable. Now
24:28
Speaker 2: there could you use other composites, for example, on your
24:33
Speaker 2: roads that may last forever? Sure you could, but then
24:37
Speaker 2: you're talking about the expense. So concrete is twice as
24:40
Speaker 2: expensive as asphalt, concrete will last twice as long as asphalt.
24:45
Speaker 2: But it's the affordability. And some places in Europe do
24:48
Speaker 2: use more of a composite, but the issue is can
24:51
Speaker 2: we afford to do that?
24:52
Speaker 1: And if we use.
24:53
Speaker 2: Something that is a lot more expensive, then that would
24:56
Speaker 2: mean we would have to do less roads and less
24:59
Speaker 2: rehabilitation into the roads. So it's always a mix between
25:03
Speaker 2: you know, what you can afford and then making sure
25:08
Speaker 2: that what you are using is the most durable. But
25:11
Speaker 2: I will tell you even when they are pouring concrete,
25:13
Speaker 2: when the weather is cold, they are out there even
25:15
Speaker 2: taking temperature of the concrete.
25:18
Speaker 1: The depth of the concrete makes a difference too.
25:21
Speaker 2: You know, there are roads over in Europe that are
25:23
Speaker 2: they're like the autobah and you know they're like a
25:25
Speaker 2: they're like a landing strip, they're so thick. Well, of
25:28
Speaker 2: course that will last forever, but then you're talking about
25:32
Speaker 2: how much that would cost to rehabilitate those roads.
25:34
Speaker 1: In the long run. Would it save us money?
25:36
Speaker 2: Perhaps, But right now we're talking about five thousand lane
25:40
Speaker 2: miles of road in the city of Omaha that are
25:43
Speaker 2: in desperate need of rehabilitation, and so we're trying to
25:47
Speaker 2: get as much as we can done with the best
25:49
Speaker 2: recipe we can come up with that is recommended to
25:52
Speaker 2: us and try to get as most of those roads,
25:55
Speaker 2: the mains and the secondary is done with concrete so
25:57
Speaker 2: that they will last a lot longer. But there is
26:00
Speaker 2: one thing that you can guarantee with concrete, and that
26:03
Speaker 2: is it will crack. I mean you can't get away
26:06
Speaker 2: from it. But that the potholes there are a lot
26:10
Speaker 2: weather related. But you know, it depends on the traffic
26:13
Speaker 2: and the weather of how long a road will last.
26:15
Speaker 2: Sometimes you can get an asphalt road to last thirty
26:17
Speaker 2: years depending on the weather and the traffic on it.
26:21
Speaker 2: So we are always the City of Omaha is always looking.
26:24
Speaker 2: Public Works is a great department, and they are always
26:27
Speaker 2: looking at ways to make what we are using more durable.
26:30
Speaker 1: One person did.
26:31
Speaker 2: Email us, and I want to explain when I was
26:33
Speaker 2: talking about the concrete and the mix that the City
26:36
Speaker 2: of Omaha does provide the recipe to the concrete companies.
26:40
Speaker 2: Someone called and said, well, I thought you were talking
26:42
Speaker 2: about roads. Why was your driveway included? And because of
26:47
Speaker 2: that because the City of Omaha was giving the concrete
26:50
Speaker 2: suppliers in Omaha the recipe that they wanted to use
26:54
Speaker 2: for the roads, and they were using that recipe for
26:56
Speaker 2: other jobs too. So the concrete that my drive was
27:00
Speaker 2: done that is pealing, and you see that on a
27:02
Speaker 2: lot of the roads here, older concrete. That is because
27:07
Speaker 2: that was the recipe at that time. They found out
27:10
Speaker 2: that it started to peel, and they do not use
27:12
Speaker 2: that anymore, but make it I want to make it
27:14
Speaker 2: clear that they do review that recipe every two years
27:18
Speaker 2: with experts and if they come up with something that
27:21
Speaker 2: is considered more durable, then they will use it. And
27:25
Speaker 2: they usually use the same recipe that the State of Nebraska,
27:28
Speaker 2: the Department of Transportation uses that they use out on
27:31
Speaker 2: our interstates too. So that's why my driveway is peeling.
27:36
Speaker 2: Try my driveway needs.
27:38
Speaker 1: To be redone too. So that's the next thing on
27:41
Speaker 1: my to do list.
27:42
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
27:43
Speaker 3: And I got an email from Tom this morning and
27:45
Speaker 3: he is talking about youth baseball tournaments. He says, I'm
27:48
Speaker 3: an assigner for the Premier Sports Officials Association. We assign
27:53
Speaker 3: umpires for the Slumpbuster Tournament and for the Battle of Omaha,
27:57
Speaker 3: the other youth baseball tournament around College World time.
28:00
Speaker 4: Along with our.
28:01
Speaker 3: Local umpires, we welcome many guest empires, guest umpires to
28:07
Speaker 3: Omaha every year. The coaches, players and fans have been
28:10
Speaker 3: very complimentary and always appreciate the effort that goes into
28:13
Speaker 3: these kind of events. So that's just kind of a
28:16
Speaker 3: comment there, but just to say that's a great So
28:18
Speaker 3: many different types of people are in Omaha right now
28:21
Speaker 3: from all over the country.
28:22
Speaker 2: From everywhere, and you know, probably a good i'd say
28:25
Speaker 2: maybe ten years ago. Each year what they do in
28:28
Speaker 2: the College World Series kind of changes. But they used
28:30
Speaker 2: to have actually an event like a dinner with all
28:33
Speaker 2: the umpires, and I would go to that and I mean.
28:36
Speaker 1: Talk about a group of guys. I mean, holy cow.
28:40
Speaker 2: But they were having a good time here, and boy,
28:44
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to be in an umpire referee.
28:47
Speaker 4: It's tough.
28:48
Speaker 3: You get you get put under a lot of scrutiny,
28:49
Speaker 3: you get a lot of people shouting at you. Oh yeah,
28:52
Speaker 3: almost feel like you can't win sometimes, I know it.
28:54
Speaker 2: And it's really interesting when they revisit those plays and
28:58
Speaker 2: you know they're looking at to see if the call
29:01
Speaker 2: was correct. Or loud, and it's really interesting how they
29:03
Speaker 2: do that. But yep, glad that they're all here, Glad
29:06
Speaker 2: that they're enjoying Omaha.
29:07
Speaker 4: And this is continuing on.
29:08
Speaker 3: Scott sent us an email and he says he drives
29:11
Speaker 3: Uber once in a while, and he was driving Uber
29:13
Speaker 3: this weekend. I had some wonderful conversations with people all
29:16
Speaker 3: over the country, different ages. Almost unanimously, they said, Omaha
29:21
Speaker 3: people are super friendly and helpful. The food and food
29:24
Speaker 3: options are world class. Omaha is much bigger than they thought,
29:28
Speaker 3: and they're amazed by how hilly it is.
29:30
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad of everything, he said, but hilly. I
29:34
Speaker 2: just don't see Omaha as being too hilly. We're pretty
29:37
Speaker 2: flat here. But I do think you know, when they're
29:40
Speaker 2: you talk about these new people coming to town that
29:43
Speaker 2: haven't been here before, and they most of them are
29:46
Speaker 2: trying to stay downtown. Lucky for all of you who
29:50
Speaker 2: get to sit or you know, stay at the Marriott
29:53
Speaker 2: or the Hilton or you know the different hotels motels
29:57
Speaker 2: that are down around the ballpark because you don't have
29:59
Speaker 2: to get car and drive around. But I get a
30:01
Speaker 2: lot of comments about our park to our riverfront park
30:05
Speaker 2: and the beautiful Jean Leahy mal Heartland America, Park Lewis
30:08
Speaker 2: and Clark Landing. You know, with the luminarium there, the
30:11
Speaker 2: Science Museum, so much for people to do and look
30:15
Speaker 2: at that wasn't here a few years ago. And every
30:18
Speaker 2: year it seems like that there's more and more things
30:20
Speaker 2: that are available for the guests to look at.
30:22
Speaker 1: But you know, they still go back to their.
30:24
Speaker 2: Old favorites, to Zesto's, the Jello shots, all of those
30:30
Speaker 2: things that are so iconic about the College World Series.
30:33
Speaker 1: It's fun.
30:34
Speaker 3: Scott finishes the email by saying, Omaha has showed up
30:37
Speaker 3: and I'm certain a lot of visitors will return home
30:39
Speaker 3: with great things to say.
30:41
Speaker 1: Well again and thank you for saying that. And I
30:44
Speaker 1: do too.
30:44
Speaker 2: And the thing of it is is that I would
30:46
Speaker 2: always breathe a sigh of relief after each College World
30:50
Speaker 2: Series when nothing negative happened. And you know, you always
30:55
Speaker 2: worry with this huge group of people. A lot of
30:58
Speaker 2: alcohol is being consumed, a lot of people are here
31:01
Speaker 2: having a good time, but that is our number one priority,
31:04
Speaker 2: and I know it's the Omaha Police Department's number one
31:07
Speaker 2: priority is to keep you all safe and get you
31:09
Speaker 2: back home safe and you could say, boy, I had
31:12
Speaker 2: a good time in Omaha.
31:13
Speaker 3: I have some comments about things that you mentioned earlier
31:16
Speaker 3: on the show, but I want to get Mike taken
31:17
Speaker 3: care of here. Mike, you were on news radio eleven
31:19
Speaker 3: to ten KFAB with G and South.
31:23
Speaker 1: Good morning, good, good morning.
31:26
Speaker 9: Quick question, with the influx an increased amount of evs
31:29
Speaker 9: out there on the road, I know the wheel tax
31:32
Speaker 9: and the gasoline tax is the major portion of where
31:36
Speaker 9: the road A pair tax fund comes from.
31:38
Speaker 5: Has the city when you were in your during your
31:40
Speaker 5: administration or have you had feedback from the state and
31:43
Speaker 5: with the current administration, how are they addressing the fact
31:46
Speaker 5: that the evs are not contributing to the gasoline tax
31:50
Speaker 5: they're charging at home.
31:52
Speaker 9: A lot of the vehicles are still being rated as
31:54
Speaker 9: it's a DAN even though they weigh as much as
31:56
Speaker 9: a three quarter ton truck. And the next question I
32:00
Speaker 9: have is obviously with the influx and the growth of
32:03
Speaker 9: Amazon and all the other delivery vehicles, we see a
32:06
Speaker 9: lot of delivery vehicles drive around town that have out
32:08
Speaker 9: of state plates on them.
32:09
Speaker 5: Yes, and a lot of them have switched to EV.
32:11
Speaker 9: Amazon's got a big fleet of electric vehicles a lot
32:14
Speaker 9: of them have out of state plates on there.
32:16
Speaker 7: How does the city or.
32:17
Speaker 9: The state go about making sure, excuse me, that they
32:20
Speaker 9: are addressing.
32:21
Speaker 5: The issue of the weight of the vehicles and how.
32:25
Speaker 9: Are they taxing those differently than the let's say, standard
32:27
Speaker 9: gasoline or patroleum based vehicle.
32:29
Speaker 2: Well, you know, the gas tax comes from the state
32:31
Speaker 2: of Nebraska, obviously you probably know that, not from the
32:34
Speaker 2: City of Omaha, and that is determined by the state
32:37
Speaker 2: and the state legislature. About the gas tax, I don't know,
32:41
Speaker 2: and I would have to do a little research on it.
32:43
Speaker 2: If they have had that discussion on the legislative level
32:46
Speaker 2: in the state about the evs, I'm not sure that
32:50
Speaker 2: they have, or if they've looked at it or not.
32:53
Speaker 1: I'm not seeing. I know that there.
32:55
Speaker 2: Are more and more and that are coming online, and
32:58
Speaker 2: I know that, like you said, Amazon's got some that
33:01
Speaker 2: are electric. Now, the thing of it is is it's
33:04
Speaker 2: not going as fast as I think you would think
33:08
Speaker 2: it would because of the lack of charging stations that
33:11
Speaker 2: we have around. And so the other thing though, that
33:15
Speaker 2: the city of Omaha does get the City of Omaha
33:18
Speaker 2: gets the motor vehicle wheel tax, and so we get
33:23
Speaker 2: very little of the state gas tax. Some of that
33:26
Speaker 2: comes back to the City of Omaha, but it is
33:28
Speaker 2: all determined by the state. And you know, I've said
33:31
Speaker 2: this before. The motor vehicle wheel tax that the City
33:34
Speaker 2: of Omaha charges, it does bring in about twenty four
33:37
Speaker 2: million dollars a year, and that if for a car,
33:41
Speaker 2: it is fifty dollars, and then it goes up if
33:44
Speaker 2: you have heavier vehicles. And the wheel tax, the whole
33:48
Speaker 2: premise of it is that you help cause the wear
33:51
Speaker 2: and tear on the streets with the vehicle you are driving,
33:54
Speaker 2: and so you pay a bit for that. And people
33:58
Speaker 2: will always say that wheel tax was meant to be temporary.
34:01
Speaker 2: That is not true. That's one of those urban legends
34:04
Speaker 2: here in Omaha. The wheel tax first was imposed in
34:08
Speaker 2: nineteen eighteen. It's been and it was a dollar. It
34:12
Speaker 2: was a dollar a year, and as the years went
34:15
Speaker 2: on it has gone up to fifty dollars for a car. So,
34:18
Speaker 2: but that state gas tax, that is something I'm going
34:21
Speaker 2: to the gasoline tax, I am going to have to
34:23
Speaker 2: do a little more research. But not that you mentioned this,
34:27
Speaker 2: the gas tax has or the gas gasoline prices has
34:31
Speaker 2: dropped already have you seen that we're below four dollars? Now?
34:34
Speaker 4: Notice that a little bit.
34:35
Speaker 3: I'm not not getting my hopes too high. But you know, well,
34:39
Speaker 3: unding down.
34:40
Speaker 2: They say the Strait of Hormuz is open and the
34:43
Speaker 2: tankers are going through now. And immediately the cost of
34:47
Speaker 2: gas has dropped down beneath or below four dollars. And
34:51
Speaker 2: so that's something that I think we should be watching.
34:55
Speaker 2: But the electric vehicles are something I find incredibly interesting.
35:00
Speaker 2: I was just in Phoenix recently, and all around the
35:03
Speaker 2: Phoenix airport they have those what are those called? I'm
35:07
Speaker 2: blanking on them. They're the little they're they're the driverless cars.
35:11
Speaker 4: Yes, what is the name for them? All?
35:12
Speaker 2: Fine, I'm blank and it's coming to me in a minute.
35:14
Speaker 2: But they're all around the Phoenix airport and that is
35:18
Speaker 2: a weird thing to look at too, because they all
35:21
Speaker 2: of a sudden, this car with all this stuff, all
35:23
Speaker 2: these cameras all around it is driving next to you
35:26
Speaker 2: and there is no driver. I mean, we don't see
35:29
Speaker 2: those here yet. Waymos, waymos.
35:31
Speaker 4: That's it.
35:31
Speaker 1: Good for you.
35:32
Speaker 2: You look that up really quickly, the weymos. So it'll
35:35
Speaker 2: be interesting as these things evolve and become more popular
35:39
Speaker 2: and become more reliable too. I think then we're gonna
35:44
Speaker 2: have to really rethink what we do here even in Omaha,
35:47
Speaker 2: as far as charging stations and things like that.
35:49
Speaker 3: I want to get one more call in here before
35:51
Speaker 3: we take a break. Nick, you are live with Jeene
35:53
Speaker 3: Stauthort here on KFAB.
35:55
Speaker 1: Good morning.
35:56
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, hi Jeene, how you doing good?
35:59
Speaker 1: Thank you?
36:00
Speaker 6: Good hey. I have a question about sidewalks. Okay, I've
36:04
Speaker 6: heard a different takes, like I've moved here five years ago,
36:08
Speaker 6: and who's responsible If your sidewalk is buckling?
36:14
Speaker 2: You are? The homeowner is. And so the sidewalk in
36:19
Speaker 2: front of your house, between the curb and your lawn
36:22
Speaker 2: is the responsibility of the homeowner and no, it is,
36:28
Speaker 2: and it is so if you have a snowstorm, the
36:32
Speaker 2: homeowner is responsible for plowing that sidewalk. Now, if it's
36:36
Speaker 2: a sidewalk that's that's you know, in an area around
36:39
Speaker 2: public property, then the city of Omaha, of course is
36:43
Speaker 2: responsible for that. But the sidewalk, now, there's a lot
36:46
Speaker 2: of areas. I'm glad you brought that up because of
36:49
Speaker 2: somebody that has walked door to door a lot in
36:53
Speaker 2: the last twelve years campaigning. There are so many older
36:58
Speaker 2: and older neighborhoods sidewalk walks that they used to plant trees.
37:02
Speaker 2: A developer would plant trees between the sidewalk and the curb,
37:06
Speaker 2: and those things, because of the root system, have buckled,
37:09
Speaker 2: and some of those have buckled a lot. And so
37:13
Speaker 2: you know, the City of Omaha will come out and
37:17
Speaker 2: address the trees that are in that area if they
37:20
Speaker 2: are causing problems. But the sidewalk is is, unfortunately the
37:24
Speaker 2: responsibility of the homeowner.
37:27
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, not what you wanted to.
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Speaker 1: Hear, but.
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Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm new here because you know, back
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Speaker 6: from where I came from, you know, the sidewalk was
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Speaker 6: a civil thing and I get it and I accept
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Speaker 6: it now. The other question is too, is that recently
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Speaker 6: throughout the city they've been installing new from the street
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Speaker 6: to the house plumbing lines get rid of the lead, right,
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Speaker 6: they're asking they're still sending letters out for insurance on that.
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Speaker 6: So what about that? I mean, wouldn't it be covered
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Speaker 6: already since the city? I mean, for me, they had
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Speaker 6: to open up earneath my floor up into my laundry
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Speaker 6: room and I got reimbursed by that work because they
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Speaker 6: opened up. But why would it still have to be
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Speaker 6: ensured if it's a brand new waterline?
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Speaker 1: Hmm?
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Speaker 2: I yeah, well that if the city is doing work
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Speaker 2: and and the main is usually goes down the middle
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Speaker 2: of the street, and if they need to replace those
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Speaker 2: pipes and get into people's yards, of course the city
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Speaker 2: will cover the cost of that. I'm not sure I
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Speaker 2: totally understand your question, though, okay.
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Speaker 6: And I don't want me to put you on the
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Speaker 6: spot on that. Another couple of things, two more things.
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Speaker 6: One I love your take about the Patriots, okay. And
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Speaker 6: the other thing too, is we Atlanski's last week?
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, wasn't that fun?
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Speaker 6: That was fun? And thank you? And say how to
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Speaker 6: your husband? I was very graciously. He's a very gracious.
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Speaker 2: Man, I said, He's tall, smart and handsome. What more
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Speaker 2: could I want? But thank you for being there. You
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Speaker 2: know what? What to explain though, real briefly if you
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Speaker 2: could what you mean by the insurance with those with
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Speaker 2: the water lines that the city is replacing.
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Speaker 6: Okay, So anyways, they'll send out every now and then.
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Speaker 6: They had before, like I said, all my property for
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Speaker 6: close to five years now okay, And they always talked
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Speaker 6: about in case that waterline broke from the street to
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Speaker 6: the house, right, Okay, would you buy insurance? You know,
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Speaker 6: fix it? But mine had been recently replaced, And why
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Speaker 6: wouldn't I need to buy insurance? That's all I mean.
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Speaker 6: It's maybe a time, okay, because you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: And are you saying you got a letter from the
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Speaker 1: city about insurance?
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Speaker 6: Yes, you know, do I want it? I mean, like
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Speaker 6: those are a timeline in which they'll stop or before
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Speaker 6: they'll start sending. Okay, to stop, before they will start sending,
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Speaker 6: Like I mean that waterline that they installed, okay, from
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Speaker 6: the street to my home to my home? How long
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Speaker 6: is that going to be guaranteed for?
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Speaker 1: Okay, I see what I see what you're saying.
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Speaker 2: Let me let me dive into that a little bit
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Speaker 2: and I'm going to come back with a better answer tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: But thank you for the question, because that's interesting.
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Speaker 4: Thank you Nick for their phone call this morning.
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Speaker 3: And we're going about a minute left here, and Richard
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Speaker 3: sends an email in response to something Jean.
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Speaker 4: Said earlier today.
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Speaker 3: He said, Gene, stop, You're saying that you would fight
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Speaker 3: for your country is incredibly disingenuous.
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Speaker 4: You know that you wouldn't be put on the front
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Speaker 4: lines like men.
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Speaker 3: So stop acting like you're a patriot because you would
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Speaker 3: do something where you don't fait near the risk that
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Speaker 3: the men would. It's also a slap in the face
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Speaker 3: for the men that really did fight for their country.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Richard, are you saying women cannot be patriotic? That
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Speaker 2: is exactly what you are saying. And I will say, Richard,
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Speaker 2: you are absolutely wrong. What you said is a slap
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Speaker 2: in the face to most women in this country. So
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Speaker 2: thanks for the comment, but I do not agree with that.
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Speaker 2: And so you know, being a patriot means a lot
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Speaker 2: to me, and I think it means a lot to
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Speaker 2: men and women both.
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Speaker 1: But that is it for us today. Thank you all
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Speaker 1: for joining us.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's been almost a week since I asked
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Speaker 2: Denise Powell if she would be on our show, and
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Speaker 2: what do we have. No, yes, I have not heard back.
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Speaker 2: But tomorrow I have a great guest, Keith Mellow, who
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Speaker 2: is President and CEO of the Greater Romao Chamber, is
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Speaker 2: gonna be on. We're going to talk about business in Omaha.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening and being with us today,
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Speaker 2: and I hope you join us tomorrow. I am Jean Stothard,
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Speaker 2: and this is eleven ten k f A b