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Analysis of FIRST CD2 Debate · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Jean Stothert, Peyton Heilach. My producer
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  Speaker 1: is also here this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Peyton. Good morning, Jean. And it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a hot one today. What's with the weather?
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  Speaker 1: 95 degrees today. This breaks an all-time record. Peyton has
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  Speaker 1: his swim trunks on today.
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  Speaker 2: I do, I do. I have some sunscreen on. Just
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  Speaker 2: ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Holy cow. Well, I think tomorrow we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: a little relief. It might be 90, but goodness sakes,
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  Speaker 1: we've had some hot fall weather. But thank you all
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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, hear your comments, concerns, questions, complaints.
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  Speaker 1: Anything goes. We won't back away from anything, and we
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  Speaker 1: have plenty to talk about today, whether it's city, state, national,
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  Speaker 1: or the world. We're going to have good guests this week,
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  Speaker 1: and of course, you're going to hear a lot of
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  Speaker 1: opinions from me too, but it is your chance to
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  Speaker 1: speak up and sound off. Please send your emails to
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  Speaker 1: comment at kfab.com. You can call us. at 402-558-1110, and
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  Speaker 1: Peyton will answer that himself. Or you could leave us
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  Speaker 1: a recorded message on the talkback mic, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to play it on the air.
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  Speaker 2: We're so happy that you are with us. And you
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  Speaker 2: know what?
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  Speaker 1: Before we even started, and I have all sorts of
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  Speaker 1: things to talk about today, we've had a caller.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Jean, I know that you love taking some notes,
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  Speaker 3: and I think you bought a new notepad just for
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  Speaker 3: today and this amazing week of the Cafe Bee Comment Line.
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  Speaker 2: I used up all my– I use for all the listeners.
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  Speaker 1: I use the yellow pads, and every single interview I have,
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  Speaker 1: I take notes on it, and then I keep it.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm getting into a lot of yellow notepads here.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she is.
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  Speaker 1: Still, I have a lot of information that I could
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  Speaker 1: look back and– think, well, what was that conversation about
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  Speaker 1: or what did we talk about?
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  Speaker 2: So anyway... Let's hit the phones. Here we go. Mike,
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  Speaker 2: you are live here on KFAB with Gene Sauther. Good morning, Mike.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, hi, Gene.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Gene. More of a complaint type comment. You know
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  Speaker 5: that right outside Giles Road, you know, on the interstate
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  Speaker 5: where they're building those monster walls? Can you imagine what
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  Speaker 5: those probably cost? I mean, why, you know, I mean...
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  Speaker 5: Don't they have any better money to spend? Why don't
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  Speaker 5: they put it towards property taxes? But I know it
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  Speaker 5: probably comes from a different fund probably, but that's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and you know what?
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  Speaker 1: You're so right. Number one, on the interstate, that's federal.
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  Speaker 1: So interstates are all federal dollars. And so those are
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  Speaker 1: called sound walls. A lot of times, most of the time,
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  Speaker 1: they are required by the EPA. Sound is one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that's an environmental protection. environmentally protected thing. But
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  Speaker 1: that comes from federal dollars there. But we do do
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  Speaker 1: them in town too. And a good example is on
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  Speaker 1: 168th Street. That work that was done there, widening 168th,
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  Speaker 1: if you drive there between like Pacific and down to
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  Speaker 1: Q Street. Another area is 156th North of Dodge. I
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  Speaker 1: remember Veronica did that project. And sometimes those sound walls
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  Speaker 1: can literally cost as much as the road itself. If
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  Speaker 1: it's done within the city, like I'm thinking of 156,
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  Speaker 1: if you know what I mean there, north of Dodge,
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  Speaker 1: you have to have the homeowners that are behind where
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  Speaker 1: those walls would be 51% of them have to agree
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  Speaker 1: to do that. But those things are very expensive. The
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  Speaker 1: ones along I-80 there in Giles, those are sound walls.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they call them. And those are federally funded, those.
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  Speaker 1: And I think there might be a little state money
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  Speaker 1: in there, too, but I'm not sure. I think most
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  Speaker 1: of it, because the interstates are federal funds, I think
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  Speaker 1: most of that comes from the federal government. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: we always ask, you know, why we're spending money on this, that,
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  Speaker 1: or the other. Couldn't those go to property tax relief?
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that a little bit later
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  Speaker 1: on today. But I just want you all to remember
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  Speaker 1: that property tax is local. It's your local government taxing agency.
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  Speaker 1: entities that set the levy. And so you hear so
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  Speaker 1: much about, you know, what can the state of Nebraska
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  Speaker 1: do to lower property taxes? There are some things that
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  Speaker 1: they could possibly do by state law. For instance, they
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  Speaker 1: could say they could restrict by state law how much
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  Speaker 1: valuations can go up every year.
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  Speaker 2: That's something they could do with state law.
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  Speaker 1: And then the cities and school districts, et cetera, would
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  Speaker 1: have to abide by that. But the levy itself, is
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  Speaker 1: set by your local taxing entity, school district, cities, counties, NRDs,
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  Speaker 1: Metro Community College, et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: One more phone call to go here. We got Ned
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  Speaker 3: on the line. Ned, thanks for the call. What's on
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  Speaker 3: your mind?
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  Speaker 4: Good morning. Okay. Yeah, good morning to you all. Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me. I'll be super brief. Now, this
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  Speaker 4: may be kind of off the subject, so to speak,
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  Speaker 4: but question. What is taxing? a Semite. No one to
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  Speaker 4: this day, and I study history, no one to this day,
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  Speaker 4: to my knowledge, has given a clear definition of what
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  Speaker 4: a Semite is. And the reason why I'm bringing this
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  Speaker 4: up is because we hear these terms thrown out so much, anti-Semite,
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  Speaker 4: what have you. If no one Maybe you have the information.
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  Speaker 4: If no one can identify what a semi is, how
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  Speaker 4: can you have an anti-semi? And then the last thing,
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  Speaker 4: and then I'll hang up. The last thing, when we
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  Speaker 4: talk about the Middle East, the Middle East, the middle
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  Speaker 4: of what? I mean, so what people need to correct that,
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  Speaker 4: but I know it's not going to be corrected, but
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  Speaker 4: it troubles me. The Middle East is actually Western Asia, okay?
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  Speaker 4: So we'll leave it at that, but I'll let you
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  Speaker 4: all go, and I know it was an off-brand question
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  Speaker 4: or what have you, but I just thought I'd just
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  Speaker 4: throw that in for food for thought. But you all
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  Speaker 4: have a good day, and keep up the show. I'm
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  Speaker 4: enjoying it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, and thank you for listening. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you are right.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes these terms that are thrown around and thrown around
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  Speaker 1: and thrown around get mixed up and people use them inappropriately.
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  Speaker 1: I think a Semite is usually referred to a person
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  Speaker 1: that speaks the Semitic language, and that includes languages like
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew and Arabic. But I think over time, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: these terms have been used and used and used, and
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  Speaker 1: And they've been used to describe various ethnic groups. And that's,
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  Speaker 1: I think, what you were talking about from the Near East,
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  Speaker 1: for example, including Jews and Arabs, etc.
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  Speaker 2: But that Semitic language.
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  Speaker 1: That I said, you know, it's like, I guess, a
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  Speaker 1: subfamily of the Afro-Semites. Asiatic language family, and that would
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  Speaker 1: include Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic. I mean, it gets very, very confusing,
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  Speaker 1: but I think actually that term applies to those who
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  Speaker 1: speak a certain language, and I think that's where it
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  Speaker 1: gets really mixed up. So when you start talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Mideast, the Middle East, what exactly are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: I think that that really, really gets confusing, but I
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  Speaker 1: think generally— It's people who spoke or who speak the
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  Speaker 1: Semitic language, and that includes the Jews and the Arabs.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that that's where it gets mixed up.
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  Speaker 3: That is an interesting question, though, from Ned, just from
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  Speaker 3: an English language perspective. Yes, it absolutely is. You think
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  Speaker 3: of anti, that's a prefix for something. So if you
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  Speaker 3: take off the prefix anti, and now you have Semite
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  Speaker 3: or Semitic, it should be clear, but it's really not.
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  Speaker 3: But That's beside the point.
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  Speaker 1: They use it as anti-Jew right now. If you say anti-Semitic,
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  Speaker 1: that people generally think you're only talking about anti-Jew or anti-Judaism,
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  Speaker 1: and they're not. And technically that term applies to more
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  Speaker 1: than that.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, good question. It's a really good question.
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  Speaker 3: Gene, there's two things that come to my mind about,
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  Speaker 3: I think that are super interesting to dive into. in
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  Speaker 3: this next portion of the KFAB comment line.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, we have a lot. What are you thinking about
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  Speaker 2: heading to here?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I am thinking of heading to number one. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about Hillary Clinton being in Omaha on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that was in the front of my mind.
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  Speaker 1: And receiving the key to the city from John Ewing.
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  Speaker 1: And he gave her honorary citizenship to the city of Omaha.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that a little bit. But
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  Speaker 1: I also want to talk about the debate last night
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  Speaker 1: that was on KETV from 6 to 7 o'clock between
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  Speaker 1: Brinker Harding and Denise Powell. I want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: that today, and then I also want to talk about, oops,
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  Speaker 1: there was a mistake with the bond schedule for the
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  Speaker 1: criminal that was bonded out on a $ 7, 500 bond. He
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  Speaker 1: paid $ 750 and got out, and they forgot a zero
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  Speaker 1: on there. And so I think Aaron Hansen made that
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  Speaker 1: very clear. I think Mike McKnight covered that on WOWT.
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  Speaker 1: But there is a bond schedule for weekends, and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to get into that. And it wasn't followed. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's interesting stuff. But let's just jump in, if
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  Speaker 1: we could, right now. Do we have time, Peyton?
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  Speaker 2: Of course we do. He's looking at me. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about the debate last night.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So if you guys have, any of you have watched
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  Speaker 1: the debate last night, number one, I got to start
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  Speaker 1: it out with this. And it's not all about Gene Stothert.
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  Speaker 1: But I have done, we figured out over 40 debates
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  Speaker 1: and forums.
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  Speaker 2: Over the 12 years. I was at City Hall. How
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  Speaker 2: about that? And running in campaigns. You know what?
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  Speaker 1: And when I say debate or forum, forums are, you're
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  Speaker 1: asking you a lot of questions, but they're not set
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  Speaker 1: up in debate style. Otherwise, they don't say 90 seconds
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  Speaker 1: to introduce yourself, 60 seconds for an answer, 30 seconds
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  Speaker 1: for a rebuttal, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And so
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  Speaker 1: I've done over 40, and let me tell you, they
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  Speaker 1: are intimidating. You can't help but be a bit nervous.
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  Speaker 1: You do not know the questions ahead of time. People
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  Speaker 1: will say, oh, they knew the questions. No, you are
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  Speaker 1: not given them ahead of time. You are given the
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  Speaker 1: general format to say you're going to get two minutes
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  Speaker 1: to introduce yourself, 60 seconds.
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  Speaker 2: For an answer, whatever. Can I ask a real follow-up, though,
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  Speaker 2: real quick? Is this a rebuttal?
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  Speaker 4: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: No thanks. We're going to get to that.
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  Speaker 3: Is it fair to think that there might be a
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  Speaker 3: few topics that you know are kind of must-ask? No.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they don't say, we're going to ask you
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  Speaker 1: about immigration, we're going to ask you about the– no,
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  Speaker 1: they don't. But you assume what are the major issues
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  Speaker 1: in this race. You assume what it is, and then
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  Speaker 1: if you do any debate prep, I mean, what are
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  Speaker 1: people talking about? They're talking about taxes, cost of living.
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  Speaker 1: They're talking about– They hate the campaign ads on TV.
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  Speaker 1: They're talking about government spending. They're talking about Social Security.
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  Speaker 1: All of those things, you just think, okay, this is
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  Speaker 1: going to come up. They're going to come up with
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  Speaker 1: the farmers in Nebraska. You kind of know this. But
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  Speaker 1: there was one big topic that didn't come up last
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  Speaker 1: night at all, which I want to bring up.
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  Speaker 2: But I will just say this.
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  Speaker 1: Last night, for those of you who watched this debate,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to get your opinion about it, I
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  Speaker 1: think— And for Brinker Harding, I will say this. Admittedly,
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  Speaker 1: I think he started out shaky, a bit shaky. I
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  Speaker 1: think he looked uncomfortable. But, I mean— So was I.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you don't know what's going to hit you.
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  Speaker 1: But I think he recovered, and I think he finished very,
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  Speaker 1: very strong. Just generally speaking, I was very surprised that
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  Speaker 1: Denise Powell passed on so many rebuttals. I would never
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  Speaker 1: pass on a rebuttal. I cannot understand anybody passing on
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  Speaker 1: a rebuttal. And so she passed several times. I think
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  Speaker 1: there was at least four times that she passed on
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  Speaker 1: a rebuttal and just said, no, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: It was four. It was four times.
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  Speaker 1: I looked at my notes because I took notes last
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  Speaker 1: night on questions and rebuttals. Why would you ever pass
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  Speaker 1: on that? Honestly, it's because you don't have anything else
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  Speaker 1: to say about it. I thought, ironically— Denise Powell said
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  Speaker 1: she wants dark money during this debate out of politics,
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  Speaker 1: but then she funneled and directed more than $ 5 million
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  Speaker 1: of outside dark money to destroy John Kavanaugh in the primary.
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  Speaker 1: She came out for Medicare for All yesterday. Yesterday, she
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  Speaker 1: came out with a plan for or said she supported
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  Speaker 1: Medicare for All. That plan, Medicare for All, has been
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  Speaker 1: estimated to cost about $ 5 trillion.
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  Speaker 2: A year or $ 50.
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  Speaker 1: Trillion over 10 years. Now, she doubled down yesterday also
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  Speaker 1: on her support for amnesty. And, you know, I would have,
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  Speaker 1: if I was Brinker Harding, I would have jumped down
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  Speaker 1: her throat on all of those. I mean, I would
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  Speaker 1: have said, do you realize what this Medicare for all
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  Speaker 1: is going to cost? And I would have said, how
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  Speaker 1: are you going to pay for it? And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: she's got the nickname of Dark Money Denise. I would
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  Speaker 1: have jumped all over her for that, too. And I
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  Speaker 1: would have said, you know, you've already directed more than
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  Speaker 1: $ 5 million in the primary of dark money.
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  Speaker 2: So I think– this is my opinion. I want your opinion.
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  Speaker 1: And my– Jean Stothert's opinion that's been there, been the
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  Speaker 1: victim of this, that I don't think she had a
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  Speaker 1: good grasp on the issue. And I think what I
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  Speaker 1: got out of what she said is every solution was
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  Speaker 1: going to be more taxes and more government. That's how
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  Speaker 1: I took it. And I want to hear what you
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  Speaker 1: have to say about the whole thing. I thought the questions,
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  Speaker 1: all in all, were pretty fair. I mean, they asked
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  Speaker 1: about those questions, like I said, that I thought they
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  Speaker 1: would ask, cost of living, campaigns, about the Nebraska farmers,
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  Speaker 1: about dark money. They asked about commercials. What is one
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  Speaker 1: thing that you would say? you know, in opposition to
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  Speaker 1: something that is being said about you that isn't true.
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  Speaker 1: I think they, especially Denise, miss the opportunity to come
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  Speaker 1: out and just give an answer. I think she dodged
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the answers when they ask her the question,
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  Speaker 1: when they ask her about immigration. She answered, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: daughter of immigrants. Okay, answer the question. And what I
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  Speaker 1: like to hear is if, especially if I'm in that
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  Speaker 1: debate and it's your opponent that is dodging those questions,
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  Speaker 1: I really like when the moderator has the skills to say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to go into some rapid fire questions and
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  Speaker 1: I want a yes or a no answer, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because she wasn't answering the questions. And I think that
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  Speaker 1: that was one that she should have been pressed on
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  Speaker 1: by the moderators. What is your answer to the question?
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  Speaker 1: And not just to kind of dance around that question.
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  Speaker 1: I think overall it was about as expected. I really
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  Speaker 1: honestly don't expect a whole lot out of KETV. I've
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  Speaker 1: been in debates with them every election I've been in
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  Speaker 1: for mayor. They usually do one, KETV usually does one
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  Speaker 1: live in the studio the Sunday night before the election
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday. So this was a little early, so I've
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  Speaker 1: been there many times for these types of debates. I
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  Speaker 1: just wish that the moderators would be able to switch–
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  Speaker 1: and be able to say, answer the question. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to answer the question or say, yes or no.
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  Speaker 1: Do you support amnesty? Yes or no.
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  Speaker 2: Do you support retaliatory terrorists? Yes or no.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever received dark money? These are the things,
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  Speaker 1: yes or no, answer us so that the people know
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  Speaker 1: rather than tiptoeing around what the subject is. One of
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  Speaker 1: the questions was about the cost of living, and it
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  Speaker 1: was what is one single thing that you can do
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  Speaker 1: to reduce the cost of living? Brinker brought up spending
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  Speaker 1: is a problem. It's not a revenue problem. Denise really
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  Speaker 1: didn't answer that. I mean, she just talked mainly about government,
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  Speaker 1: and then she went to healthcare and And then she
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  Speaker 1: talked about gutting Medicaid. I mean, I'm not sure where
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  Speaker 1: she was going. And as we know, this big attack
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  Speaker 1: on the Republicans for trying to gut Medicaid, what they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to do is to reel in costs and not
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  Speaker 1: give Medicaid to people that don't qualify for Medicaid. Those
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  Speaker 1: that do, yes, they can receive Medicaid benefits. But those
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  Speaker 1: that don't, or if they are illegal, should they be
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  Speaker 1: receiving Medicaid benefits? That's the question that we should be
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  Speaker 1: dealing with and not just to keep on bringing up
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  Speaker 1: all these people that are living in Nebraska that will
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  Speaker 1: lose Medicaid benefits. If you qualify, you will continue to
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  Speaker 1: get them. And so I thought it was really interesting
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  Speaker 1: to watch the body language also grow. which I like
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  Speaker 1: to watch during debates. You know, presidential debates get very,
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  Speaker 1: very fiery. We've all watched those. And immediately after, you
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  Speaker 1: get the Republicans' analysis and then you get the Democrats'.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't even want to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Those hardly at all anymore because.
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  Speaker 1: The Republicans say the Democrats did bad and the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: say the Republicans get bad. So I didn't take any
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  Speaker 1: time last night to read either one of their social
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  Speaker 1: medias because I thought it's just going to reflect the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. One side is going to say we did great.
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  Speaker 2: We won.
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  Speaker 1: The other side is going to say we did great.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: We won.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: But I think you need to make a decision. Were
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: those questions answered to give you a satisfactory answer? And
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: how did you think both candidates did in that debate
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: last night? I still was really trying to concentrate from
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: a person, again, that has been in that situation. And
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I'll go back to passing on four different rebuttals. Wow,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: that is something I would not do.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I know, Jean, and I agree with you. That is
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: something I noticed as well. I'm thinking, man, you're passing
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: up on a rebuttal. But I will say this, and
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: you acknowledged the start of the debate. And just right
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: off the cuff, Regardless of what they were saying, Brinker
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: and Denise Powell, I got a little flavor, and it's
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: not a one-to-one comparison, but a little flavor of John F.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Kennedy on the first ever TV debate with Richard Nixon.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: And for the first time, there's a presidential debate on TV,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: and John F. Kennedy was a strong, good-looking man that
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: spoke really good and spoke seeing him on TV now
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: instead of a radio, it was like, wait a second.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: You know, he had a perception to the people of
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: the United States. And when I first saw this interview
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: get kicked off, I'm thinking, Denise Powell, she's looking strong.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: She's speaking strong and she's saying things with her chest. Now,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: sometimes she was deviating and not really answering the question
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: at hand, but there was a few times that happened
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: to bring her as well. But definitely kicking off that interview,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: I was like, Denise looks powerful and strong in her
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: body language and in her words right now. where I
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: thought Brinker was a little bit more hesitant, a little bit...
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Not passing as so confident in what he was saying.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I don't disagree with that at all, Peyton. I thought
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: she started out stronger, but the issue is what she
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: was saying.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: And I agree. It's the context of what she was saying.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I would have just gone after her for saying– the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: commercials saying– Anything Donald Trump wants, Brinker Harding is okay with.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: He likes the war. He likes taxes. You know, I
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: would have said, you are lying about that. I mean,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: you got to do sucker punches in these debates and
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: not just, you know, beat around the edges. When Denise
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Powell said last night, she is a voice for red
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and blue. Now, that one got me because, once again,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: she's the self-proclaimed leader in the city of Omaha and
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: in District 2 for decades.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: I never heard of her. Nobody's ever heard of her.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: You would have thought she was mayor and congressman and
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: police chief and everything else, but nobody's ever heard of her.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: She worked on campaigns, and she said she's all about
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: common values with the red and the blue.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: I've never seen that before.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, also, which we're going to get to, is
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton was in Omaha this Saturday for, they called
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: it pumpkins, pies, and politics.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Denise Powell wasn't there.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And there was probably, they said, about 300 Democrats that
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: were there. Interesting, she wasn't there. But Brinker also, to
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: be fair, he did not go to when Donald Trump
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: was in town out in Grand Island. So perhaps they
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: felt like some other part of campaigning was more important
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: than to be sitting there listening to somebody talk. Maybe
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: they both felt like, well, I'd do much better to
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: go out and knock on doors or whatever.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: And that's okay.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much you could do as your
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: campaign wraps up. But I just felt like what she
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: said showed she didn't have a really good grasp of
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the issues, even though when she spoke, she spoke very strongly.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: We want to hear from you today, 402-558-1110, or send
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: an email to comment at kfab.com. Your host of the show,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Gene Stothert. My name is Peyton Highlock, running the board.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Whether it's the debate between Brinker Harding and Denise Powell
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: last night, or Hillary Clinton receiving a key to the
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: city of Omaha, granted by Mayor John Ewing, we want
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: to hear from you here on 1110 KFAB, the KFAB
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: comment line.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: And we are back. I'm still talking about this debate.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: And a couple of things I wanted to bring up
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: that I thought about during the break is one of
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the questions or statements that Denise Powell made about the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: minimum wage. I got to say on that one, I
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: liked Brinker's response and Brinker's body language because he turned
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: and he looked right at her. And he basically said, okay,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: why did I say I voted against it? Because I
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: got a legal opinion that we cannot do that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: That is why.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: And doesn't the law make a difference? And so this, again,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I liked how he answered that, but this, again, You
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: can spew out whatever you want in these debates, but
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: it's the context of what they are saying and what
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: really is the truth. Now, another thing that has been
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: very important to Nebraska voters, and it is an issue
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: that is front and center, and it was not brought
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: up at all, and I don't know if it was
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: an oversight or whether it was intentional or But the
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: issue of using taxpayer dollars for transgender surgery, especially for youth,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: that is a big issue. Both candidates have completely different
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: positions on that issue. Denise Powell has made it very
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: clear that she is for taxpayer dollars going to transgender surgeries.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Brinker Harding has said he is not.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I would have thought that that would have been a
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: hot topic that they could have brought up last night
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: that they didn't at all. And so I want to
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: hear for any of you that have watched it, what
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: you felt about it, strengths, weaknesses. If you haven't watched it,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's up on KETV. I'm sure you can
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: watch that debate.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Jean.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Is a compliment that I'll give to Channel 7, KETV.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: They did a great job with the way that they
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: posted this. I mean, you go through, and there's maybe
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: 10 to 12 different four or five-minute clips they have
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: on YouTube, and it's Denise Powell Brinker-Harding on Social Security,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: and then a different clip on the deficit and spending,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: and then a different clip on artificial intelligence, and a
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: different clip on their party versus their district, and it's
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: broken up into the questions, and I think that really
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: helps Give you bite-sized pieces. A question I have for
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Eugene is this was the first interview. I mean, sorry,
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: the first debate between these two candidates running for the
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: second congressional district. Do you think the questions will differ
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: in the following two debates based on what we've seen today?
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Or do you think that they're kind of preplanned and
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: those different media groups will ask the questions that they want?
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: And be independent in that.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Well, I think all media outlets need to focus on
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: what the issues are in that campaign. And so if
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: they repeat themselves and ask the same question, for instance,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: like I said, about, say, about taxes, about the federal debt,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: about Social Security, about Iran. These are about transgender surgery.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: These are cost of living. These are things that are
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: important to Nebraska voters, and so they need to ask
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: them again. Maybe not in the same way. Maybe they
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: could ask them a different way. Maybe they could push
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the candidates to answer the question and not dance around
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the question. For another example is when they started talking
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: about Iran. And, you know, Denise Powell did say that
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: we are no closer to a settlement peace in the Mideast.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I forgot how she said it. She said we are
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: no closer than we were eight months ago.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, I would have said, do you support Iran
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: having a nuclear weapon? I mean, get down to the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: down and dirty of it and ask the question and say,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: do you feel like we now, of what was accomplished
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: in the Middle East, is that now we have taken
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the ability for Iran to have a nuclear weapon to
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: use against us or not? Just answer those questions the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: way people want them answered because they're not doing it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: And that's why I said I like those.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: That if the moderator had the skill to move to
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: more of a, okay, I'm going to ask you some
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: rapid fire questions. They could have, they should know exactly
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: how long that's going to last and they should have
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: their questions that's going to fill up that whole time,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: assuming they give them the 60 seconds and then the,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: you know, the 30 for a rebuttal. But since Denise
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Powell passed on four rebuttals, you got at least a
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: couple more minutes. They could have got in quite a
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: few rapid fire questions there.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I think so too.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: And again, I'm sure it's tricky because you want to
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: be as fair as possible as a moderator asking them
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: both the same questions. But if you do rapid fire,
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: one candidate will get a few more moments to think.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: But if you go, all right, three rapid fire questions
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: to candidate A, three rapid fire questions to candidate B,
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: and then go back and forth for a few, that
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: might break it up a little bit. But I think
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: you make a good point. When you go rapid fire
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: and it's a yes or a no, you can't pontificate. Well, see,
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: the thing about what happens in– Yes.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Okay. Do you believe in amnesty? Well, I am a
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: daughter of immigrants. No, no, no.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Denise.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you believe in amnesty?
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: And that's what you absolutely should be doing. Now, the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: one thing I will say too about this debate last
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: night is they did show respect for each other.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: They did. I cannot– They did.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: When they, number one, they interrupt you while you're trying
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: to talk during your 60 seconds or the rolling of
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the eyes. You know, you are not given– you cannot
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: bring any notes either. That you can bring a pen
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: and a blank piece of paper, and they check that
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: in the very beginning. That's all you can have. So
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: anytime they're looking around, there's no notes there. They just
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: have to speak. Let me tell you one of the–
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: a good example when it was in– well, this last
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: election in 2025– They did a debate at the press
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: club during the primary, which usually they don't. They usually
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: wait until there's two candidates for mayor. But they did
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: one during the primary. It was at the press club,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: and WWT did it because I remember Brian Mastry was.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: The emcee of that.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: But the emcee has to have control of the debate too.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: And in that debate, I recall anytime I tried to
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: answer a question, Mike McDonald was talking loud as I
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: was trying to answer. And they didn't stop it. They
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: let that go on. Now, that's bad. And you've got
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: to get control of the candidates. And then there were
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: people in the audience, I remembered at that debate, that
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: were there to make boos and yay. And they should
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: not do that either. That's why I like the format
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: that they had last night with Denise Powell and Brinker Harding,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: that there weren't people in the audience that added their
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: own little two cents to anything anybody says.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: That's very distracting. So it shouldn't be allowed. So a
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: quick question.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Do you know if they're allowing any guests or anybody
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: in an audience, quote unquote, to the further debates?
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: You know, I have to look into that and I will,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: we'll report that tomorrow, but I know there is one
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: coming up that I think is in collaboration, WWT and
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the Omaha World Herald both. And I do believe, and
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I will, I will verify this tomorrow and let you
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: know that it's at the press club. And if it's
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: at the press club, they usually will allow an audience.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: But like I said, with that audience, that moderator needs
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: to control that audience. There's nothing worse than Then you're
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: given 60 seconds to answer a question and you start
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: talking and your opponent is sitting there saying, not true,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: not true. Or the audience is going boo or yay.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: That should not be allowed. And that did not happen
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: in that format last night. And they showed respect for
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: each other. And I like that. And I think that
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: was good.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: And then I noticed, too, you made a comment about
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: no notes. You can't come in with a cheat sheet.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: No, blank piece of paper and a pen.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: You can take notes.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: While you're there and while you're not answering or in
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: preparation before getting asked a question, but you can't come
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: in with notes.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: You could take notes during the debate.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I do that a lot because when your
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: opponent is speaking and you're thinking, ooh, ooh, I know
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: how I want to answer that, and I just would
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: write down about three or four words.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like squirrel. Yes. If you don't take notes, okay, well,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: then they said two or three things. And then you
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: would forget one. And you're like, oh, ah. I know.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, I forgot that. I wish I would have said that.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: And so I would just write down words like so
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I would remember how I wanted to respond to that
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: because you got to think really, really quickly and you
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: got to think on your feet. So I really want
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to hear what you all have to think about it.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Like I said, if you didn't listen to it, go online, KETV,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: and listen to it. It was one hour, but the
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: hour went really, really fast. And then let us know
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: what you think about it. Now, do we have any questions?
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Because I want to talk about Hillary Clinton.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about Hillary Clinton.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: We're going to take a quick break, but I would
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: like to just read two or three emails that I've
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: gotten in here today. This one is from Shirley in
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: regards to the debate. Denise could not answer questions. It
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: seemed like she had prepared responses that did not answer questions.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Example is the question, quote, is there a commercial that
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: you would like to defend and correct?
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would have jumped all over that.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Harding was rough, not confident with either candidate. That was
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: an email from Shirley at comment at kfab.com.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: And the moderator said, set the record straight on one ad.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: That's what they asked. And so I did not get
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: an answer from her. He said he misrepresented her on
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: her work on schools. And I'm like, what was that?
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: So I did not understand her answer on that, nor
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: did she answer it. And then I think Brinker's answer
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: was that he was a rubber stamp for Trump. And
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: he said that is not true. But she said a
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: lot of other things about him that were not true.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: So.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Hillary Clinton and Mayor Ewing this weekend as Hillary Clinton
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: made a visit to Omaha. We'll get into that next
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: on the KFAB Comment Line with your host, Gene Stothert.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: My name is Peyton Highlock on 1110 KFAB. Gene Stothert
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: in the KFAB Comment Line here on NewsRadio 1110 KFAB.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: My name is Peyton Highlock.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: And, Gene, we had a visitor this weekend, and I
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: am not talking about the Indiana Hoosiers.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. That's another story. Former U.S.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, of course, former president. presidential candidate.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: She spoke this Saturday during the game. Maybe that's where
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Denise Powell was. But anyway, they called it pumpkins, pies,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: and politics. But anyway, Hillary was telling everybody about how
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the Dems are going to fix what's broken. But one
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: of the things that I wanted to bring up is
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Mayor John Ewing gave her the key to the city
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: and made her a honorary citizen of the city of Omaha.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I got to talk about that a little because a
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: lot was being said about that. Now, the key to
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the city, it's an honorary citizen. honor that the mayor,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: and only the mayor can do, only the mayor can
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: give the key to the city. You kind of design
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: your own little key to the city. It usually has
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: your name on it or whatever. But there's no official
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: rules about the key to the city. However, I've given
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: this key to the city, and I would say- You know,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I'm giving this to somebody that has done something extraordinary.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: And although they weren't always from Omaha, somehow they affected Omaha.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a couple examples. I gave
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the key to the city, for example, to Gene Hayes,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: which was the principal of North High, known as Mr.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: North High. When he retired, I gave him the key
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: to the city. I gave the key to the city
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: to Dennis Pope, who was president of the NCAA and
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the College World Series. He's not from here, but look
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: what the College World Series has done for Omaha. I
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: gave the key to the city to one of the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: commanders of the USS Omaha. So, I mean, that is
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: that ship that– that is named after Omaha. Susie Buffett
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: was the sponsor. But when the commander was here, I
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: did give him the key. I gave David Brown the
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: key to the city, which is former president of the
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Greater Omaha Chamber. One person that didn't do, that isn't
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: from Omaha, that I did give the key to the
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: city to, but I think he deserved it, was Peyton Manning.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: And so I met him. We were doing something together.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: But Peyton Manning is here almost every year for that
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: College World Series. His son plays in the Slump Busters.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: He loves Omaha. He loves being here. And he has
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: some presence here, like I said, during the College World Series.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: What about this one? What about this one?
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Check, check.
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  Speaker 1: Omaha.
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  Speaker 4: Omaha.
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  Speaker 2: And I asked him that.
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  Speaker 5: Omaha.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you say Omaha? That was– and he said
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  Speaker 1: it's just because it sounds right. It has the right Candace-like.
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  Speaker 1: And so anyway, those are just some examples. But I
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  Speaker 1: usually will say for people doing extraordinary things. So there
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  Speaker 1: isn't any– about the key to the city. But I
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  Speaker 1: think when former U.S. Secretary Hillary Clinton got the key
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  Speaker 1: to the city, and now she's an honorary citizen of
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  Speaker 1: the city of Omaha. And I want to bring something up.
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  Speaker 1: Not that I keep on talking about John Ewing because
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  Speaker 1: I don't always, but I'm going back.
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  Speaker 2: This debate that happened.
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  Speaker 1: I stood next to John Ewing at many debates and forums,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember him saying over and over and over again,
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  Speaker 1: I am not a politician. I am a public servant.
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  Speaker 1: He said that over and over and over again. John
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  Speaker 1: Ewing is much more of a politician than many mayors
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  Speaker 1: that I have ever seen in the city of Omaha.
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  Speaker 1: He's came out and endorsed candidates, Democrat candidates in the primary.
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  Speaker 1: He's endorsing Democrat candidates now over the incumbents, like he
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  Speaker 1: endorsed Michaela Danner over Don Kline, he endorsed Denise Powell
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  Speaker 1: over Brinker Harding. He endorsed Mark Martinez over Aaron Hansen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he is every bit of a politician. So
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  Speaker 1: all of that said during a debate, I am not
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  Speaker 1: a politician. I am a public servant. He's every bit
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  Speaker 1: of a politician, especially given the key to the city
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  Speaker 1: to Hillary Clinton.
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  Speaker 4: This is the year of the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. It's a year of the neighbor. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's why. But key to the city is up to
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  Speaker 1: the mayor. But I would always reserve it for people
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  Speaker 1: that have done extraordinary things that reflect on Omaha.
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  Speaker 3: I just used the little Google machine here, and there's
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  Speaker 3: a few people that it says you gave the key
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  Speaker 3: to the city to, and I want to see if
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  Speaker 3: they're true.
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  Speaker 2: Terrence Bud Crawford. Did, yes.
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  Speaker 3: The undefeated multi-divisional world champion boxer and Omaha native, arguably
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  Speaker 3: one of the greatest boxers of all time.
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  Speaker 2: And why didn't I just think of that off the
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  Speaker 2: top of my head? But yes, I did.
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  Speaker 3: And sitting in the studio of the veteran KFAB radio host,
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  Speaker 3: recognized on his 40th anniversary with the station, Gary Saddlemeyer
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  Speaker 3: has a key to the city of Omaha.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, those, and I think, I don't think anybody
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  Speaker 1: would disagree. Maybe somebody would. But these are people that
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  Speaker 1: have made a big impact on Omaha. And it's just
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  Speaker 1: an honorary thing. You know, I mean, I would always say,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll never know what this key unlocks. Here's the
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  Speaker 1: key to the city. So, but yeah, Bud Crawford, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Gary Saddlemeyer, definitely. But these are people that surely have
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  Speaker 1: made a big impact. But I wasn't playing a political
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  Speaker 1: game with them. And I think besides probably– I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know what political party Peyton Manning is in, but
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  Speaker 1: I would.
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  Speaker 2: Say Gene Hayes. I don't even care.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Terrence Crawford. I mean those are not– those two
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  Speaker 1: are not Republican, I would not think.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't just give it to Republicans. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: care about their political party. I gave it to them
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  Speaker 1: for what they have achieved. A very good show today
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  Speaker 1: that will be uploaded at kfap.com. slash podcast or the
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app under Gene Stothert and the KFAB comment line.
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  Speaker 1: We have a really good guest coming on the show tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: We do.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, one more thing I want to ask
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  Speaker 1: our listening audience, and let me know what you think
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  Speaker 1: about this, because this came up during the debate yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it is important that candidates running for
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  Speaker 1: office in the state of Nebraska are from the state
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  Speaker 1: of Nebraska? I would like to hear the that because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm not from the state of Nebraska, but
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  Speaker 1: I've lived here 34 years. Brinker is fourth generation. Denise
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  Speaker 1: Powell is not. What's your thought on that? But that's
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  Speaker 1: it for us today. Thank you all for being with
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: us this afternoon on the Chris Baker Show. Jane Klebb,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: who's the chair of the state Democrat Party, will be
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  Speaker 1: on at four o'clock. She's the counterpart to Mary Jane Trumper,
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  Speaker 1: who is the state chair of the Republican Party that
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  Speaker 1: I had on last week.
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  Speaker 2: And guess who's going to be in the studio tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: on our show, Peyton?
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  Speaker 1: Lynn Waltz, candidate for governor of the state of Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: And Lynn Waltz will be here tomorrow. So hope you
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  Speaker 1: can join us again. We'd love for you to be
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  Speaker 1: with us tomorrow. I'm Jean Stothert, and this is 1110 KFAB.