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Jean Stothert Street and Prime Rib · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Jean Stothard. Peyton Hilock, my producer, is
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Speaker 1: also here. Good morning, Peyton, Good morning to you, geez he.
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Speaker 1: We're going to get to why Peyton's sitting over there
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Speaker 1: on the soundboard laughing already this morning. But thank you
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Speaker 1: for being with us today. We want to hear from you.
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Speaker 1: We want to get your feedback, we want to hear
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Speaker 1: your comments, concerns, questions, complaints, anything goes city, state, national,
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Speaker 1: or the world. And of course you can call in
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Speaker 1: and make fun of the street that was just named
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Speaker 1: after me last night, because because Rosie and Scott had
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Speaker 1: the best time with us this morning. But let me
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Speaker 1: tell you all, even in my introduction, if you're going
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Speaker 1: to waste your time going on Facebook making fun of
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Speaker 1: the street, I'm laughing at every one of them, So
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Speaker 1: you're not hurting my feelings at all. But we will
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Speaker 1: have plenty of guests and we want to take your
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Speaker 1: calls and hear what you're feeling today. And of course
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Speaker 1: you're gonna hear plenty of opinions from me, So we're
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Speaker 1: glad you're with us. But it is your chance to
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Speaker 1: speak up and sound off. You can send your emails
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Speaker 1: to comment at kfab dot com. You can call us
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Speaker 1: at four oh two five five eight eleven ten, or
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Speaker 1: you can leave us a recorded message on the talkback
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Speaker 1: Mike and we will play it on the air. We're very,
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Speaker 1: very happy that you are with us now. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: even going to bring up the street, but I've been
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Speaker 1: laughing all morning and you have.
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Speaker 2: To yeah, no kidding.
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Speaker 1: I know that some of the stuff Scott Vorhees has
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Speaker 1: come up with. But for all of you that didn't
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Speaker 1: know that it was officially renamed last night, we had
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Speaker 1: little ceremony down on Thirteenth in Farnham that the portion
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Speaker 1: of thirteenth Street from Douglas then to Farnham then to
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Speaker 1: Harney was a commemorative street renaming and it has my
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Speaker 1: name on it. And the reason that that was picked
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Speaker 1: not what one of our local news stations said. It
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Speaker 1: was thirteenth Street because Jean Stott there was mayor for
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Speaker 1: thirteen years. I wasn't they gave me a bonus here.
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Speaker 1: I was mayor for twelve years. They picked thirteenth Street
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Speaker 1: because it is right in the middle of the Riverfront parks,
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Speaker 1: which I had everything to do with getting that done.
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Speaker 1: And then across the street of course as a mutual
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Speaker 1: of Omaha Tower, which I had was involved in that
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Speaker 1: from the very beginning and got that deal done and
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Speaker 1: even a lot of the other businesses around that area.
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Speaker 1: So it's a very fitting place. And we had some
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Speaker 1: really great people that came last night to speak. Don
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Speaker 1: Bacon spoke, Brinker Harding spoke, Amy Melton spoke, How Dobbs spoke.
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Speaker 1: Former Mayor, Heath Mellow, President of the Chamber spoke. Mike Pate,
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Speaker 1: former member of the Millard's School Board, who was the
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Speaker 1: one that introduced this this recognition.
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Speaker 2: Excuse me. So it was really it was really fun.
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Speaker 1: But our one and only, Scott Voorhees came and said
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Speaker 1: a few words and he got me laugh and leaving
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Speaker 1: last night because one of the first things he said is,
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear myself on the news next
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Speaker 1: year say jeans stay off Jean stoth today because she's
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Speaker 1: a mess. Or the next one was Gene Stothard's really
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Speaker 1: backed up this morning, and then it deteriorated from that.
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Speaker 1: So I know everybody's having a good time with it online,
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Speaker 1: but please, you know, say, you know, save yourself some
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Speaker 1: time because you're not offending me. I'm laughing at him,
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Speaker 1: and they just him and Rosie came up with some
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Speaker 1: really great ones this morning.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, it's called I got to explain a.
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Speaker 1: Little bit about this, that anybody could submit a name
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Speaker 1: for a street to be renamed and they consider it
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Speaker 1: a commemorative street naming.
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Speaker 2: Excuse me.
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Speaker 1: And so our streets are numbered, you know, and then
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Speaker 1: we have names, and the number streets are north south.
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Speaker 1: We're really on a grid here. Other streets have names
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Speaker 1: east west. However, if you want a street renamed, it
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Speaker 1: can only be a commemorative street naming, meaning on a
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Speaker 1: map it will still be thirteenth Street in that section downtown.
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Speaker 1: But if you just if you drive by and look
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Speaker 1: at it, it will say Gene Stothard. Now here's what
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Speaker 1: I want to explain, because people will say, well, why
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Speaker 1: was Webster renamed Mike Fahee. Well, here's the reason is
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Speaker 1: that the rules used permanently named Mike Fahey. The rules
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Speaker 1: used to be that you could just submit it and
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Speaker 1: if it was approved by the city council, they would
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Speaker 1: change it a name street, not a numbers street.
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Speaker 2: It used to be Webster.
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Speaker 1: Now it is permanently Mike Fahey on the map that
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Speaker 1: says Mike Faye here.
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Speaker 2: Here's what happened.
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Speaker 1: I was on the city council at that time. There
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Speaker 1: were four Democrats, three Republicans on the city council. They
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Speaker 1: proposed to rename Webster after Mike Fahee. It passed, and
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Speaker 1: then the Republicans that were on the council myself at
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Speaker 1: that time, we thought, well, you know what, I think
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Speaker 1: it's very fitting that tenth Street in front of the
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Speaker 1: Arena Convention Center should be renamed after hal Dap because
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Speaker 1: he had so much to do with the construction, the building,
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Speaker 1: the approval of the Arena Convention Center, as Mike fayhe
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Speaker 1: did for the ballpark.
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Speaker 2: That's why they named Webster.
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Speaker 1: So, on a four to three vote, before we could
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Speaker 1: get that accomplished, the city council change the rules in
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Speaker 1: the rules so that number one, if a street was
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Speaker 1: named after a person, which Webster was, Webster was a person,
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Speaker 1: it could never be renamed after another person. The second
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Speaker 1: rule they changed on a four to three vote, four Democrats,
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Speaker 1: three Republicans, is that it had to be dead ten
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Speaker 1: years So how would rather be alive than to have
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Speaker 1: a street named after him? So then we were prevented
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Speaker 1: from renaming tenth Street.
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Speaker 3: Held that's the story. That's a good story. And I
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Speaker 3: had somebody comment yesterday. Channel six posted the story on
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Speaker 3: their on their Facebook page that you're getting having a
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Speaker 3: street naming last night, and somebody in the comment said,
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Speaker 3: when did Gene pass?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, golly, oh that's it. That's where they got
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Speaker 1: that from. The because it is it is a commemorative
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Speaker 1: street naming. Now, you don't have to be dead if
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Speaker 1: you remember that Mayor John Ewing Junior had a street
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Speaker 1: named after him after he was mayor for a month.
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Speaker 2: So usually that doesn't happen.
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Speaker 1: Usually with a mayor, you wait to see their body
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Speaker 1: of work and what they accomplished, et cetera like that.
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Speaker 1: But I excuse me today, but I talked too much
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Speaker 1: last night. But I will be the first to say
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Speaker 1: that I think hell Dob is much more deserving than
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Speaker 1: I am to have a street named after him, and
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Speaker 1: I wanted to get that done. I thought, Okay, if
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Speaker 1: I can't get tenth Street renamed after Hall Dob, maybe
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Speaker 1: I could get the Dodge Expressway because that was his,
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Speaker 1: the Dob express Wise.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that would be good, and it sounds the same exactly.
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Speaker 1: That's good, but Hel's still alive and so and Dodge
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Speaker 1: is a state road too, so then it's a different
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Speaker 1: process than being approved by the Omaha City Council.
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Speaker 2: Now you all remember you probably have heard already.
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Speaker 1: This year that a portion of six point eighty is
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Speaker 1: being proposed because of it is an interstate proposed by
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Speaker 1: Don Bacon in our federal delegation in Nebraska to be
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Speaker 1: renamed after Hal Dobb.
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Speaker 2: So it is being proposed.
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Speaker 1: It isn't final yet, but it's being proposed by a
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Speaker 1: federal delegation that a portion of six 't eighty will
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Speaker 1: be renamed after Dab And I agree with anybody that
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Speaker 1: wants to criticize the Geen Stothard Street that Hell is
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Speaker 1: much more deserving, I think than I am, and he
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Speaker 1: should have a street named after him.
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Speaker 4: He.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's done everything, and you know that man
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Speaker 1: he spoke last night to. He is still ubiquitous. He
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Speaker 1: is everywhere in Omaha, every event. Him and his beautiful
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Speaker 1: wife Mary come all the time, and they are just
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Speaker 1: as energetic and as fun to be with as they've
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Speaker 1: ever been.
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Speaker 3: We can talk about street namings as much as we want. Today,
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Speaker 3: I want to get to the phone lines. This is
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Speaker 3: the KFAB comment line with Jean Stouth four zero two
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Speaker 3: five five eight eleven ten comment at kfab dot com.
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Speaker 3: And this gene, I think is a perfect question for you.
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Speaker 3: We have Miss Barbara on the line who has a
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Speaker 3: very fun question. Mss Barbara, thank you much so much
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Speaker 3: for calling news radio eleven ten KFAB. You are live
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Speaker 3: with Jean Stouth.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Mayor.
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Speaker 5: I just had a phone call from my brother in
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Speaker 5: Florida who grew up here in Omaha. I send them
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Speaker 5: Omaha steaks all the time for Christmas. He is coming
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Speaker 5: in September and wants to be to find out what
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Speaker 5: the best prime rib restaurant is in Omaha, and I
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Speaker 5: could and really tell him. I thought I would ask
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Speaker 5: you you might.
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Speaker 1: Know, well, you know there are I will say there
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Speaker 1: are several, yeah, that I really like, because you know,
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Speaker 1: in the state of Nebraska, if you consider yourself a
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Speaker 1: steakhouse and you don't have good steak, you're not gonna
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Speaker 1: last too long, that's for sure. I always like the
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Speaker 1: eight oh one Chop House, which is in the Paxton.
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Speaker 1: I like that restaurant a lot. I also like it.
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Speaker 1: I was there last night is. There's a restaurant in
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Speaker 1: the Farnham Hotel, which is right at thirteenth in Farnham,
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Speaker 1: right across from the Jean Lehi Mal. There's a restaurant
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Speaker 1: in there called Dynamite, and I think they are really
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Speaker 1: really really good steakhouse too. And I'm going to tell
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Speaker 1: you a third that comes to my mind because it's
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Speaker 1: not in Omaha, but it's in Ashland, which is a
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Speaker 1: short jump.
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Speaker 2: It's right down Highway six.
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Speaker 1: Ruhlman Steakhouse in Ashland has the best steaks and the
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Speaker 1: best hamburgers I think I've ever had. My My husband
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Speaker 1: loves going there and having their hamburgers, So I like all.
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Speaker 1: I like all three of those, but I I really
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Speaker 1: do that restaurant Dynamite in the Farnham Hotel. It's and
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Speaker 1: it smells good in there because they have a wood
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Speaker 1: burning fire in there, and it's really it's really good.
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Speaker 1: But again, I think there's a lot of good steakhouses,
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Speaker 1: but I would think those are my top three.
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Speaker 5: Okay, great, thank you, thank you for the call.
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Speaker 3: Uh huh. I always think phone calls just like that
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Speaker 3: are really fun and uh, you have your opinion when
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Speaker 3: it comes to amazing restaurants.
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Speaker 2: So I think that you are perfect, Candi.
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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna i'll ask you one because I know
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Speaker 1: how you eat. What is your favorite fast food restaurant,
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Speaker 1: mister Peyton Highlight? Oh well, this is a fast food
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Speaker 1: addict right here, fast food oubict. You know I've gotten
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Speaker 1: better though, really? Yeah, you know what I.
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Speaker 2: McDonald's doesn't call you by first name anymore.
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Speaker 3: No, McDonald's is my favorite restaurant, my favorite fast food.
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Speaker 4: That's it.
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Speaker 3: But you know what, Geene, every day this week I've
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Speaker 3: packed the lunch. No fast food.
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Speaker 2: Well, you're married now.
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Speaker 1: I'm married now, so okay, life is really different. Now
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Speaker 1: tell me do you pack Carly a lunch too?
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Speaker 3: It is a meal prep, so we kind of cook
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Speaker 3: it together. I made the breakfast this week, and I
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Speaker 3: like the lunch.
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Speaker 2: She's making a good man out of your payton. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I'm making a good woman out of her.
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Speaker 1: Of course you are, of course you are. But no,
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Speaker 1: like I said, we have a lot of lot of
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Speaker 1: great restaurants here in Omaha, and they you know what's
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Speaker 1: one I forgot to mention to her. And if you're
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Speaker 1: still listening, the classic steakhouse in Omaha, The.
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Speaker 2: Drover the Drover' I'm surprised you didn't say that.
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Speaker 1: The Drove and I, you know, I just it didn't
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Speaker 1: come to my mind. But keep in mind the Drover
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Speaker 1: when your brother comes up from Florida, Barbara, because the
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Speaker 1: Drover is just classic Omaha. It's it's not as fancy
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Speaker 1: smancy as some of the other ones, but they're known
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Speaker 1: for their whiskey steaks. They marinate them some way that
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Speaker 1: they taste so good. And I'll tell you when we
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Speaker 1: had I remembered when we had the Swim Trials and
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Speaker 1: also during the College World Series. A restaurant that is
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Speaker 1: always on the list for out of town visitors is
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Speaker 1: the Drover. So that's another one I'd add to the list.
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Speaker 1: And it's kind of Omaha iconic type of a restaurant.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, that's that's a good one too. And you know,
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Speaker 1: there was a question that came in yesterday or not, No,
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Speaker 1: I take that back. I'm I'll correct myself this morning
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Speaker 1: on the Vorhei show that some a caller called in.
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Speaker 1: It was either call in or talk back, Mike, but
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Speaker 1: I heard it after it started, and the caller said,
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Speaker 1: I think if the Omaha police are going to tarry
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Speaker 1: carry tasers, they need to be tased themselves so that
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Speaker 1: they could feel what it is.
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Speaker 2: That used to be part of the protocol.
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Speaker 1: Omaha police officers cannot all carry tasers unless they are
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Speaker 1: especially trained in tasers. Officers used to have to be
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Speaker 1: tase themselves to be taser certified, but currently it's an
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Speaker 1: optional part of training certifications. So officers formerly had to
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Speaker 1: be tased to carry tasers, but it was changed some
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Speaker 1: years ago that they don't.
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Speaker 2: It's optional.
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Speaker 1: But I will tell you, knowing the Omaha Police Department
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Speaker 1: and knowing how serious these officers are about their job
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Speaker 1: and about wanting to protect the public and themselves, I
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Speaker 1: think the majority of them will go ahead and do
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Speaker 1: it voluntarily and it just so that they know what
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Speaker 1: it feels like.
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Speaker 2: Very interesting.
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Speaker 3: I was under the impression that anybody that was equipped
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Speaker 3: with a taser needed to be tased in the process
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Speaker 3: of training, and we were talking about it quite a
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Speaker 3: bit yesterday on the Chris Baker Show, because it's been
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Speaker 3: the same way with the gloves, or that's what the
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Speaker 3: understanding was that before you could use the shot gloves,
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Speaker 3: you had to be shock gloved. Yes, but you're selling
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Speaker 3: and that is true that it's optional.
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Speaker 1: And I just checked with one of the well he's
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Speaker 1: no longer an assistant chief, but it was Scott Gray,
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Speaker 1: who was a former executive deputy chief, and he clarified.
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Speaker 1: I asked him to clarify because I too thought that
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Speaker 1: perhaps they still it was mandatory that they had to
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Speaker 1: be taste, but he said that was changed and it
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Speaker 1: is an optional part of the certification right now. So
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Speaker 1: that is true about that. Now with the shot gloves,
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Speaker 1: it's a different story because the shock is so mild.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, it's a bit of a jolt, but
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Speaker 1: it is not any anything like a taser that could
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Speaker 1: literally knock you off your feet if the prongs on
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Speaker 1: the taser do what they're supposed to do when attached
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Speaker 1: to your skin. And we did say this yesterday, but
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Speaker 1: a taser maximum vaults could be up to twelve hundred volts.
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Speaker 1: The shot gloves are three eighty at the max. You
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Speaker 1: would recognize it. But it's not going to knock you
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Speaker 1: off your feet then. So we have to talk a
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Speaker 1: little bit more about these gloves today, Peyton, because and
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Speaker 1: I want to hear what people have to say, and
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Speaker 1: I hope there's a lot of people who have a
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Speaker 1: comment about it, But Chris Baker really got into it
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Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon. And this goes also with a question that
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Speaker 1: we had yesterday a caller and they said, how did
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Speaker 1: this all start?
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Speaker 4: You know?
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Speaker 1: And I explained, well, it really started in twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: three when the Oma Police Department contacted all the safety
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Speaker 1: directors of the schools, and that all has come out.
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Speaker 1: So for Oma Public Schools just say we didn't know. Well,
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Speaker 1: shame on their safety director for our supervisor for not
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Speaker 1: letting them know because he knew in twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 1: No opposition whatsoever, no comments when it was on the
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Speaker 1: city council agenda, no comments from the city council who
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Speaker 1: passed at seven to zero. And yet you know, it's like,
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Speaker 1: where did this all start? And I said, the first
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Speaker 1: I really knew of it is when the Young Democrats
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Speaker 1: put out a press release saying this is outrageous. Basically,
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Speaker 1: we're going to have a press conference at one o'clock
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Speaker 1: last Monday. And of course you know that Jene Stothard
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Speaker 1: signed off on this on the day that she was defeated.
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Speaker 2: Well, that was all wrong.
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Speaker 1: We explained that several times I signed off on it
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Speaker 1: about a month later, after the city council approved at
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Speaker 1: seven to zero, four Democrats three Republicans. Of course, the
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Speaker 1: young Democrats don't want to care about the truth and
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Speaker 1: they don't want to mention that either, But that's the fact.
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Speaker 1: But where did this originate? And Chris Baker yesterday I
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Speaker 1: thought he was real good. And this is a theory
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Speaker 1: I think, because it's a little hard to prove it,
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Speaker 1: but to say that this started on National Public Radio
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Speaker 1: on NPR talking about ice and to a lot of
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Speaker 1: folks right now, especially in the Democrat community, that word
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Speaker 1: ice is poison. And they started talking and I don't
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Speaker 1: think that, I don't feel that way. I got to
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Speaker 1: clarify that. But they started talking about ice, and they
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Speaker 1: started talking about ice wearing the shock gloves or the
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Speaker 1: compliant gloves. And then then when they found out and
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Speaker 1: I don't know how this came about, that our Omah
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Speaker 1: police officers also have those compliant gloves, compliant by compliant technology,
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Speaker 1: that they suddenly associated them with ice.
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Speaker 2: And then here here.
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Speaker 1: Comes all the you know, the criticisms and the outrage
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Speaker 1: and you know, those parents. So that we're at the
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Speaker 1: Monday evening ops school Board meeting. I was a school
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Speaker 1: board member for eleven years, and Miller, I know what
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Speaker 1: it's like. You want the public to speak, but at
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Speaker 1: the same time, you want to listen, you want to respond,
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Speaker 1: but you don't want twenty five parents that don't know
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Speaker 1: really what they were talking about, control what is happening
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Speaker 1: in the district for the superintendent to immediately turn around
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Speaker 1: and say, I won't allow them in my school anymore.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they were calling our Omaha police Nazis, they
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Speaker 1: were calling them klansmen, they were calling them everything you
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Speaker 1: could think of, and that, just in my opinion, was very,
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Speaker 1: very unfair. They did not know what they were talking about.
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Speaker 1: They were saying, we didn't know, the school board didn't know,
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Speaker 1: the superintendent didn't know. Well, we've shown yes they did.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they had every opportunity to know. So that's
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Speaker 1: an issue within Omaha Public School. If that safety director
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Speaker 1: did not notify the superintendent, I would assume that in
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Speaker 1: the school where it happened, the safety director was notified.
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Speaker 1: I would assume the principal knew about it. So why
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Speaker 1: didn't the principal talk to the superintendent about it. That's
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Speaker 1: all internal with ops, but just being a former school
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Speaker 1: board member. I know how it worked, and the superintendent
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Speaker 1: reports to the school board. The school board hires the superintendent,
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Speaker 1: so that communication internally is ops's business. The Amah Police
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Speaker 1: Department would and step in and say, Ops, here's how
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Speaker 1: I want you to run your business in your school district.
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Speaker 1: But OPS is stepping in, say an Omaha Police department,
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Speaker 1: we want to tell you how to run your police department.
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Speaker 1: The police chief in the Bellevue Police Department basically said, Ops,
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Speaker 1: you can pound sand. This is what we are we
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Speaker 1: are trained to do, and this is what we are
19:23
Speaker 1: going to do. I think it's a different situation within
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Speaker 1: the city of Omaha, but you know I have been
19:31
Speaker 1: We'll go into that in just a few minutes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we can get into this as well. Jim has
19:35
Speaker 3: a quick comment about the gloves here on news radio
19:37
Speaker 3: eleven to ten kfab Jim, you are live with jeanst Author.
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Speaker 6: Uh, yeah, thanks for taking my call. I've never done
19:44
Speaker 6: this before, but Nurse Dochford, you hit it on ahead.
19:48
Speaker 6: I was an employee in the district and administration in
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Speaker 6: a high school eighteen plus years and I'm going to
19:55
Speaker 6: just say this. First of all, they're used in middle
19:58
Speaker 6: school and high school notified. The safety director or supervisor
20:03
Speaker 6: was notified in twenty twenty three. As you alluded to,
20:06
Speaker 6: there is a chain or a trace to those emails
20:09
Speaker 6: and who got them and when they got them. So
20:12
Speaker 6: most likely in ops when you screw up. I've seen
20:15
Speaker 6: this half the time and time again, you get promoted, okay,
20:19
Speaker 6: and these people of persons should be put on the carpet.
20:23
Speaker 6: And I know bat Ray personally, and he looked like
20:29
Speaker 6: during the headline and as anybody would when he was
20:31
Speaker 6: surprised by this. For somebody not to notify ahead of
20:35
Speaker 6: a department, not to notify the man if you will,
20:38
Speaker 6: or a woman has been unexcusable.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely on them. I think do you agree with that?
20:46
Speaker 6: Absolutely?
20:48
Speaker 3: Yeah?
20:48
Speaker 6: And if I was, and we had great SROs in
20:51
Speaker 6: our high school, great guys, and I've been in the
20:53
Speaker 6: middle of fights where pepper spray and mace did not
20:57
Speaker 6: betur these individuals. I'm trying to pick my word wisely here,
21:04
Speaker 6: but the bottom line is go back to South High School.
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Speaker 6: I'm not going to mention a man's name because I
21:09
Speaker 6: was good friends with him, he worked with me in
21:10
Speaker 6: North He broke up a fight in South High school
21:13
Speaker 6: and lost his life, okay, and died because his heart
21:17
Speaker 6: rate got so accelerated in that fight. He went up
21:20
Speaker 6: to his classroom and subsequently passed away, and his wife
21:23
Speaker 6: got a mere six figures. Now, I wonder what would
21:26
Speaker 6: have happened if they had been able to detain these
21:29
Speaker 6: young females. And if anybody's been around high school fight
21:33
Speaker 6: females are the worst. Sorry, call me sexist, but I've
21:35
Speaker 6: seen it. That's all right, right, and it is what
21:39
Speaker 6: it is. But it just drives me nuts. And I
21:42
Speaker 6: don't live in Omaha, and I'm glad I don't. I
21:43
Speaker 6: love my pension, I love my work there, get through great.
21:48
Speaker 6: But the bottom line is these kids that we're talking about,
21:51
Speaker 6: these students that need this, I want to say treatment
21:56
Speaker 6: if you will. They are not They're oblivious to consequences.
22:02
Speaker 6: I've seen them swing on SROs, I've seen them handcuffed
22:05
Speaker 6: and on the floor, and they're the property Mah Police Department.
22:08
Speaker 6: I'm very sad that marr Ewing gave in. I think
22:12
Speaker 6: mer Ewing did a great job, and he's a police officer.
22:14
Speaker 6: Got to know him personally in the school I was at.
22:17
Speaker 6: But these liberal, woke socialists are way out of line.
22:23
Speaker 6: And you know, I hate to say this, but pull
22:26
Speaker 6: the SROs out, put them on the street. We need
22:28
Speaker 6: more police officers on the street and then let these
22:32
Speaker 6: people deal with those fights and stuff that they're in.
22:35
Speaker 6: Absolutely any way, that's my two stents word and I
22:39
Speaker 6: just yeah, I don't know. It drives me nuts that
22:42
Speaker 6: people are commenting that have not seen it in action
22:45
Speaker 6: than I have for eighteen years.
22:46
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you very much for your call.
22:48
Speaker 1: I have a lot more to say about this, and
22:49
Speaker 1: I think it's time to go on to break, So
22:51
Speaker 1: I'm going to wait until we come back and we
22:53
Speaker 1: will continue this conversation.
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Speaker 7: And again we want to hear from you. We want
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Speaker 7: to hear what you have to say absolutely zero two
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Speaker 7: more shot gloves and prime rib when we return. Your
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Speaker 7: host of the show, Jean Stouthart, my name is Peyton
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Speaker 7: Hilock four zero two five five eight eleven ten. We'd
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Speaker 7: love to hear from you or comment at kfab dot
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Speaker 7: com for an email, And as a matter of fact,
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Speaker 7: I got an email here from Kevin that says, when
23:21
Speaker 7: are we going to widen?
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Speaker 2: Jean stauth Sir, I think Jean's.
23:28
Speaker 1: Doth to wide enough. Let me tell you, Oh, I
23:33
Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna get any wider than it is.
23:36
Speaker 1: But yeah, well we'll probably be making fun of having
23:41
Speaker 1: jokes about that for the next year.
23:42
Speaker 2: At least. There's that's a pretty funny one.
23:45
Speaker 3: Know that that's gonna be the joke that keeps on
23:47
Speaker 3: given you know, well that keeps on gether speaking of
23:50
Speaker 3: something that might widen you, let's talk about some prime
23:53
Speaker 3: rib yet again. Ryan has an opinion about some prime
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Speaker 3: rib here in Omaha. Ryan, thanks for calling you Live
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Speaker 3: with Jean's author.
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Speaker 8: Hey, thanks for taking my call.
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Speaker 2: Good morning.
24:04
Speaker 8: I just wanted to add to Jean's list a few
24:07
Speaker 8: more steakhouses that have great prime rib Brother Sebastians.
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Speaker 1: I forgot that one too. You are so right. That
24:15
Speaker 1: is one that Gary Sadelmeyer loves too. He loves Brother Sebastians.
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Speaker 8: It's got a great atmosphere. There there's another one, Johnny's Steakhouse.
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Speaker 2: Johnny's yep, more in South Omaha.
24:28
Speaker 8: Good one around the around the Ben Steakhouse which is
24:31
Speaker 8: out out by Ashland and Farmer Brown's by Waterloo.
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Speaker 2: There you go. Now, if Barbara's still listening.
24:39
Speaker 1: We're given her, we're confusing her, we're giving her all
24:41
Speaker 1: sorts of choices. But thank you, you're very very nice
24:44
Speaker 1: to call in and add those other steakhouses. Somebody ask
24:49
Speaker 1: it's a we're talking about prime rib and they said,
24:51
Speaker 1: why are you talking about steakhouses? Well, to my knowledge,
24:54
Speaker 1: I would consider prime rib to be the best in
24:57
Speaker 1: a steakhouse. So I don't think there's a pro prime
25:00
Speaker 1: rib only restaurant. But guess where the best prime rib is.
25:03
Speaker 1: I'm just going to tell you, no doubt, the best
25:06
Speaker 1: prime rib is put out my house, your house, because
25:09
Speaker 1: I make a mean prime rib myself. I usually make
25:12
Speaker 1: it on for Christmas dinner. But my prime rib is
25:16
Speaker 1: the best. Yeah, Gene, and I might have to contest
25:19
Speaker 1: you my uncle Gary.
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Speaker 2: Uncle Gary and Jean we both.
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Speaker 3: My uncle Gary makes a mean prime or rib and
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Speaker 3: he nails it every time.
25:28
Speaker 2: There you go, So now you know my house, that's it.
25:31
Speaker 1: Are Peyton's uncle Gary's house, That's where you get good
25:34
Speaker 1: prime rib. Absolutely, here's the next one. Let's ask our listeners.
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Speaker 1: Do you do you like it rare or do you
25:41
Speaker 1: like it?
25:42
Speaker 2: Well? Done? Peyton and I will give you our choices
25:45
Speaker 2: after you start calling in.
25:47
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think we should hear from Solsteners.
25:50
Speaker 3: Let's let's get back to this gloves. Yes, I have
25:52
Speaker 3: a lot more to say about this. Let's get serious here, Peyton.
25:55
Speaker 1: Because you know here here's some a little bit more
25:59
Speaker 1: I want to exit Blaine. And I think it's very
26:01
Speaker 1: very important. Is with the Omaha Police Department, the gloves,
26:06
Speaker 1: the compliant gloves, it was considered a weapon for the
26:12
Speaker 1: school system only, and it is not as effective as
26:16
Speaker 1: a taser. Therefore, Omaha Public school had the option three
26:22
Speaker 1: years ago when they were first notified about it. And
26:26
Speaker 1: what the decision with the Omaha Police Department that was
26:29
Speaker 1: made is they will still give them that option today.
26:34
Speaker 1: And then Omah Police Department feels like they can easily
26:38
Speaker 1: control a situational situation with a taser if they need to.
26:47
Speaker 1: And essentially that is what Omaha Public Schools has asked
26:52
Speaker 1: for now in light of the position that they took,
26:56
Speaker 1: so Chi Schmutter has said, because they took this position,
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Speaker 1: we don't want them in our schools. Now Here's here's
27:05
Speaker 1: what's important. Not every Omah Police officer is taser certified.
27:09
Speaker 1: Not every Omaha police officer can carry a taser. Chief
27:13
Speaker 1: Schmatter says that now every one of his SROs will
27:18
Speaker 1: carry a taser, so there is no risk to the officer.
27:23
Speaker 1: So now, Omaha Public schools, you all don't want the
27:27
Speaker 1: shot gloves used in your school. Fine and Dandy, every
27:31
Speaker 1: one of the SROs in your school will carry a
27:34
Speaker 1: taser and will be taser certified. The difference between Bellevue
27:40
Speaker 1: and Omaha Police Department because I think you have heard,
27:43
Speaker 1: and I said it earlier that the chief of the
27:46
Speaker 1: Bellevue Police Department said, basically, Ops Pound Sand, we want
27:52
Speaker 1: our officers to use the gloves, and we will use it.
27:55
Speaker 1: That is because Bellevue assigns the glove to every office
28:00
Speaker 1: in their department, so they can't take it away. It's
28:04
Speaker 1: basically part of their uniform. So Omaha Police Department does
28:08
Speaker 1: not give the glove to any officer except those school
28:14
Speaker 1: resource officers.
28:15
Speaker 2: There's the difference.
28:16
Speaker 1: So when they become when it becomes mandatory for every
28:20
Speaker 1: officer like it is in Bellevue, it's part of their uniform.
28:23
Speaker 2: They're required to wear it. You can't take it away.
28:26
Speaker 1: So now Omaha Police Department mandatory a gun, mandatory, a baton,
28:32
Speaker 1: mandatory pepper spray or mace.
28:34
Speaker 2: Some carry tasers.
28:36
Speaker 1: Now all the SROs in the school will be carrying tasers,
28:41
Speaker 1: and that is up to the Omaha Police Department. I
28:45
Speaker 1: think the opdsros they really understood this. Yesterday they had
28:50
Speaker 1: a meeting in the Chief's office, a mandatory meeting at ten.
28:54
Speaker 1: I know Chris Baker covered it because they did invite
28:57
Speaker 1: the superintendent mac Ray to come. Came, the president of
29:01
Speaker 1: the city council came, City council, this school board came,
29:05
Speaker 1: and they dug in and they said, we are not
29:08
Speaker 1: changing our mind. No shot gloves in the school. Okay,
29:12
Speaker 1: every officer will carry a taser. Tasers will be in
29:15
Speaker 1: your school. But let me tell you this, as far
29:18
Speaker 1: as the police officers, and I know a lot of
29:21
Speaker 1: police officers, I know a lot of police officers that SRO.
29:25
Speaker 1: It's that are SROs. I don't think it's just an
29:29
Speaker 1: issue about the glove. They will say easily, Okay, you
29:32
Speaker 1: don't want us to use the glove. We'll use a taser.
29:34
Speaker 1: That will protect us even more because it is more
29:38
Speaker 1: I don't want to use the word lethal, but it
29:39
Speaker 1: is more lethal than a glove would be. But I
29:43
Speaker 1: think it's about the disrespect that was given to our
29:47
Speaker 1: Omaha police departments from the school district. I think with
29:51
Speaker 1: what they heard, with what Matt Ray said, what the
29:54
Speaker 1: school board said, what the parents said, it was that
29:58
Speaker 1: overall disrespect to the police department that really I think
30:03
Speaker 1: bothered them. I think would bother them the most. I mean,
30:07
Speaker 1: I haven't talked all the SROs, so that's my opinion here.
30:11
Speaker 2: But there'll be fine carrying a.
30:13
Speaker 3: Taser M and there you here, guys, there here, let's
30:17
Speaker 3: continue on the phone lines here with Howard.
30:19
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for hanging on. Howard. You are
30:21
Speaker 2: live with Jean Stouthart here on KFAB.
30:24
Speaker 4: Good morning, Yes, good morning to y'all.
30:27
Speaker 5: Hi.
30:28
Speaker 4: I'll be real brief, but in reference to this glove issue,
30:33
Speaker 4: I guess what concerns me is, first of all, Omaha
30:38
Speaker 4: School Board. The superintendent, from my understanding, correct me if
30:41
Speaker 4: I'm incorrect, indicates that he had no knowledge that these
30:47
Speaker 4: gloves were being used in OPS. I find that kind
30:52
Speaker 4: of hard to believe. But with that said, my concern
30:57
Speaker 4: about these gloves. Of course, I have a fifteen year
31:00
Speaker 4: grandson attends OPS. But with that said, the manufacturer, according
31:07
Speaker 4: to what i'm reading they say it shouldn't should not
31:12
Speaker 4: be used on small children. So I take small children
31:18
Speaker 4: of being what kindergarten, what have you. But it looks like,
31:23
Speaker 4: or it sounds like the two incidents that took place
31:26
Speaker 4: was with a middle school or a high schooler, so
31:29
Speaker 4: obviously they're not small children. But what concerns me, because
31:34
Speaker 4: I'm still debating with myself on this, but I'll get
31:38
Speaker 4: to the point and get off the line, one of
31:44
Speaker 4: a lot of the officers, the ice agents and different
31:49
Speaker 4: police officers, of police superintendents and what have you in
31:54
Speaker 4: different cities, what concerns me about what they're saying is
31:59
Speaker 4: that it avoids culpability. I mean, I'm looking here, looking
32:06
Speaker 4: here on these websites. I don't know if they're all,
32:09
Speaker 4: you know, correct or what have you, but in their quotes,
32:13
Speaker 4: but make a long story short and I'll get off
32:15
Speaker 4: the line, some of these police officers or police captains
32:20
Speaker 4: or what have you are saying that it avoids culpability.
32:24
Speaker 4: It doesn't because it doesn't leave any type of birds
32:27
Speaker 4: or what have you. Now, coming from that perspective, that's
32:34
Speaker 4: that's what troubles me. I mean, the only reason why
32:38
Speaker 4: you are one of the real reasons why you want
32:40
Speaker 4: to use them is because it can avoid future lawsuits.
32:44
Speaker 4: But if a lawsuit is if a lawsuit, I mean,
32:52
Speaker 4: come on now, if you use it, I'm kind of
32:54
Speaker 4: losing myself.
32:55
Speaker 2: But if that's okay, I understand where you're going with.
32:58
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, if if you want to use the device,
33:03
Speaker 4: because it could further high culpability. And that's what some
33:07
Speaker 4: of these if these quotes are correct, that's what some
33:11
Speaker 4: of these officers are saying, then that's suspect. But other
33:17
Speaker 4: than that, if they're less lethal, you know, three hundred
33:22
Speaker 4: eighty bones compared to twelve hundred, I would be all
33:25
Speaker 4: for that, yes, But anyway, but I'm gonna get all
33:28
Speaker 4: that thank you that you all comment on it. But
33:30
Speaker 4: that's where I'm coming from with that. Thank you, Thank
33:33
Speaker 4: you all for taking my call and continue your program
33:36
Speaker 4: and have a wonderful day.
33:37
Speaker 1: Thank you you two sir, and I you know, I
33:39
Speaker 1: really appreciate your call because you do have a good point.
33:42
Speaker 1: So number one, the officers that had the gloves are
33:45
Speaker 1: trained in use to the gloves and it says do
33:48
Speaker 1: not use on small children. They would not be used
33:50
Speaker 1: on small children. I mean they you know, when you
33:53
Speaker 1: talk about the issue of breaking up a fight or
33:56
Speaker 1: something that could potentially turn lethal in a school, it's
34:00
Speaker 1: usually not with a kindergartener or a first grade it's
34:03
Speaker 1: usually with larger students that are in middle school or
34:07
Speaker 1: in high school. So they would and that's the one
34:09
Speaker 1: thing the parents when they were testifying in front of
34:12
Speaker 1: the ops school board, it was like, my son or
34:15
Speaker 1: my child is in special ed with they misbehave, Are
34:18
Speaker 1: you going to shock them? Absolutely no, that's not how
34:21
Speaker 1: they're trained to do it. But they are also in
34:24
Speaker 1: their training when they are in the academy and they
34:27
Speaker 1: continue to be trained, they are you know, they are
34:31
Speaker 1: accused sometimes of excessive use of force. They are trained
34:36
Speaker 1: if they are in involved in an incident to use
34:39
Speaker 1: the least amount of excessive I mean the least amount
34:42
Speaker 1: of force first. They use that first, and then they
34:47
Speaker 1: escalate up depending on what the situation is.
34:50
Speaker 2: So in a school district, the.
34:53
Speaker 1: Less lethal, less dangerous is would be the glove, and
34:57
Speaker 1: then it would go up to a taser, and then
35:00
Speaker 1: it would go up to these other methods that they
35:03
Speaker 1: are trained on. So they're not going to be using
35:05
Speaker 1: them on small children. But because it is considered less
35:10
Speaker 1: lethal or the a lower form of force. They would
35:15
Speaker 1: always pick that first. The reason that I think so
35:20
Speaker 1: many people are upset with Omaha Public Schools is they
35:23
Speaker 1: knew about this. They knew about it three years ago.
35:27
Speaker 1: And for them to sit there and say they didn't
35:29
Speaker 1: know about it, we have the emails that shows they
35:32
Speaker 1: were notified, they were given the option three years ago.
35:36
Speaker 2: Nothing came back, nothing at all.
35:38
Speaker 1: And so it's them to explain why they didn't reach
35:42
Speaker 1: out and say, let me learn more about it, let
35:45
Speaker 1: me understand how you're going to use it. Are you
35:47
Speaker 1: going to use it on young children? That onus is
35:50
Speaker 1: on the school board, I mean on the school board
35:52
Speaker 1: in the school district and their safety supervisor or director,
35:55
Speaker 1: whatever they call it. That should be the owners should
35:59
Speaker 1: be on them. Now Omaha Public School is an it's
36:04
Speaker 1: they're an island then, and you know the next use
36:07
Speaker 1: of force would be obviously would be the taser. And
36:11
Speaker 1: so the Omaha Police Department officers, now the SROs that
36:17
Speaker 1: are in these schools in ops, although they're on an island,
36:20
Speaker 1: they are not going to be unsafe. We don't want
36:22
Speaker 1: them to be unsafe in any position. And because we don't.
36:26
Speaker 1: The taser's a lot more effective. So you've got a
36:29
Speaker 1: really good point there, but you start at the lowest
36:32
Speaker 1: amount of force and then you escalate up depending on
36:35
Speaker 1: the situation. That's what they were looking for for the
36:38
Speaker 1: use of these gloves. But I think it's interesting when
36:40
Speaker 1: I found out Bellevue it's all of the officers have
36:43
Speaker 1: them and are encouraged to use it, because what do
36:46
Speaker 1: you hear all the time when you see big incidences
36:49
Speaker 1: on national news excessive use of force. They want to
36:53
Speaker 1: make sure in the school districts that they're there to
36:56
Speaker 1: protect everybody in that building, including themselves, that they want
37:01
Speaker 1: to use the proper force when the situation warrants it.
37:05
Speaker 3: Just closing thoughts here, Gene. I think Howard did bring
37:07
Speaker 3: up a very very interesting perspective there that we haven't
37:10
Speaker 3: talked about yet on the KFAB comment line. In the
37:14
Speaker 3: same respect, we've seen these in school for a year
37:18
Speaker 3: and a lot of the issues that people are having
37:21
Speaker 3: with these gloves are built on hypothetical situations that had
37:26
Speaker 3: not been seen in a whole school year.
37:28
Speaker 8: Right.
37:28
Speaker 1: They'll say, well, what about if there's a little scuffle
37:30
Speaker 1: in the hall, Well, what about if somebody is smoking
37:33
Speaker 1: in the bathroom. Well, what about all these situations they're
37:37
Speaker 1: coming up. Well, you could say the same thing with
37:40
Speaker 1: their other weapons that they have now. But at the
37:43
Speaker 1: end of the day, whatever this situation is, you want
37:48
Speaker 1: to be assured that the Omaha Police Department in that
37:52
Speaker 1: building will do it's darn best to keep your child
37:56
Speaker 1: and every child safe. That's their number one reason to
38:00
Speaker 1: be there. It's to provide safety. But you gotta always
38:04
Speaker 1: consider the officer's safety too. That's why they part of
38:07
Speaker 1: their uniform is a ballistic vest. They all wear them
38:11
Speaker 1: because you are concerned with the officers safety.
38:14
Speaker 8: Two.
38:15
Speaker 1: We've had an officer, Carrie Rosco several years ago, you know,
38:18
Speaker 1: on a on a warrant that was shot and killed
38:21
Speaker 1: and she had a little baby in the nick You still,
38:25
Speaker 1: you know, those things happen, So we care about those
38:28
Speaker 1: officers that put their life on the line every single
38:32
Speaker 1: day when they go to work.
38:33
Speaker 2: My name is Peyton Hilock.
38:35
Speaker 3: Jean Stouther, your host of the KFAV comment line. We've
38:39
Speaker 3: had a few different topics of conversation today. Shot gloves obviously,
38:43
Speaker 3: and also prime rib and steakhouses. I'm just gonna do
38:47
Speaker 3: a quick rapid fire of some comments that we got
38:50
Speaker 3: about how do you like your prime rib? This is
38:54
Speaker 3: it comment at kfab dot com. The first one says,
38:58
Speaker 3: the redder, the better like it. Scooter says Charleston's rare.
39:05
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Charleston's is good too. Charleston's is pretty good.
39:08
Speaker 2: You've mentioned Charleston.
39:09
Speaker 1: I love Charleston's and it's that's how at heartwood preserve
39:12
Speaker 1: the new one. It moved and off it was North
39:15
Speaker 1: the Dodge before. But I love Charleston's and I love
39:18
Speaker 1: how it smells in there because they have wood fire too.
39:21
Speaker 3: Teresa says prime rib should be eaten rare, not just
39:25
Speaker 3: because it's yummy, but also when you don't eat it all,
39:29
Speaker 3: you don't overcook the leftovers.
39:31
Speaker 2: Oh good point.
39:32
Speaker 3: That's a really good point, and real quick to wrap
39:34
Speaker 3: up this prime rib. I like my prime rib very,
39:37
Speaker 3: very red, to the point where the juice on my
39:40
Speaker 3: plate almost looks like.
39:41
Speaker 2: A good red wine. Well, oh, yeah, me too.
39:44
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, I think I don't know too many
39:48
Speaker 1: people that wanted that want prime rib well done because
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Speaker 1: you lose the flavor in it.
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Speaker 2: But yes, I.
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Speaker 1: Agree, I agree, But again, the best place in Omaha
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Speaker 1: is at Jean Stothard's house saying another thing. You know,
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Speaker 1: we could talk about gloves. It's we're going to continue
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Speaker 1: talking about gloves because I think it's on the national
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Speaker 1: news now the glove gate or whatever you want to
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Speaker 1: call it here, but and it's a serious conversation. But
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Speaker 1: I did want to bring something else up because brinker
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Speaker 1: Harding now has an ad that just hit the airwaves
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Speaker 1: in CD two and I like it. I like it
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Speaker 1: a lot. And you know, I've been I've been approving
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Speaker 1: TV commercials and seeing them against me for years and
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Speaker 1: years now, but I like this one for the same
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Speaker 1: reason I like he's a fake democrat Osborn because it's
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Speaker 1: it's lighthearted. Brinkers is very lighthearted. It has it's, it's
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Speaker 1: recorded in filmed in his house. He has his two daughters,
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Speaker 1: his wife, and his dog.
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Speaker 2: Winnie in it.
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Speaker 1: And he's just lightheartedly saying I'm hostile territory because I'm
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Speaker 1: in a house with four females. And he said, and
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Speaker 1: this is how I will handle hostile situations in DC.
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Speaker 1: Of course, it's tongue in cheek and I mean the
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Speaker 1: when I looked online last night and again, I don't
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Speaker 1: look at myself anymore because I don't want to see it.
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Speaker 1: But when I looked about what people were commenting on
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Speaker 1: Brinkers because they posted it on his web page, Oh
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Speaker 1: my gosh, the comment's so negative, So I mean, unbelievably negative,
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Speaker 1: and I just think, you know, take it for what
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Speaker 1: it is. Here he's got a commercial. It's lighthearted. He
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Speaker 1: is showing his family in there, and he goes through
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Speaker 1: and says what he's going to do if you elect him.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't attack anybody. He says what I am going
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Speaker 1: to do. He's not coming out with his first commercial
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Speaker 1: saying I'm a po dad, and maybe that's what some
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Speaker 1: people want. I had no son, yes, yes, yeah, maybe not,
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Speaker 1: but maybe I mean, is that what people would rather have?
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Speaker 1: Like Denise Pals starting her introduction to this campaign by
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Speaker 1: saying I'm a pod mom. Of course she's toned it
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Speaker 1: down after she was criticized for that, but goodness sakes,
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Speaker 1: if we could get a candidate to do a commercial
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Speaker 1: and come right out and say this is me, this
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Speaker 1: is what I'm really like. I've got this is my home,
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Speaker 1: here's my family, here's my dog, and here's what I'm
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Speaker 1: going to do for you. It brings out his personality
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Speaker 1: and I like it. You can let me know, call us,
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Speaker 1: email us, talk back micas, but let us know what
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Speaker 1: you think about it. But these are the kind of
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Speaker 1: commercials I think we should be seeing and not these
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Speaker 1: negative ones all the time. But that is it for
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Speaker 1: us today. Time flies when you're having fun. I hope
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Speaker 1: you all have a great weekend. Thank you for spending
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Speaker 1: this hour with us, and we would love for you
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Speaker 1: to join us again on Monday morning. I'm Jean Stothard
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Speaker 1: and this is eleven ten kfab