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Peyton Got Married / Jean Got Free Coffee · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Kfab comment Line. I am your host,
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  Speaker 1: Gene Stothard, Peyton high Lock, my producer is on his
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  Speaker 1: honeymoon and we're gonna talk about that in a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But guess who's here, Scott boorhees for the what the.
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  Speaker 2: Twentieth hour today? That you are still here?
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  Speaker 3: No place I'd rather be. I guess yet to be
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  Speaker 3: with you all week.
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  Speaker 1: He's just stuck in that chair all week while Peyton
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  Speaker 1: is honeymooning met Thank you all for being with us today.
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  Speaker 2: We want to hear from you. We want to get
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  Speaker 2: your feedback here, your.
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  Speaker 1: Comments, concerns, questions, complaints, really, anything goes. We won't back
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  Speaker 1: away from anything, whether it's city, state, national, or the world.
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  Speaker 1: And of course we're gonna have plenty of guests, no
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  Speaker 1: guests today, you're just gonna hear from me and Scott today,
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  Speaker 1: and of course you're gonna hear plenty of opinions from us.
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  Speaker 1: But it is your chance to speak up and sound off.
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  Speaker 1: You can send your emails to comment at cafab dot com,
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  Speaker 1: five eight eleven ten, or you could leave us a
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  Speaker 1: recorded message on the talkback Mic and we'll play it
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  Speaker 1: on the air. But we are very happy you are
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  Speaker 1: with us. Scott said he thought I was coming in
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  Speaker 1: a little bit late today and I was.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I got behind some old grandma on
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  Speaker 1: Underwood and well Cass all the way to Underwood, driving
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  Speaker 1: fifteen miles an hour. And I can say that that
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  Speaker 1: is not age discrimination because I'm an old grandma and
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  Speaker 1: I don't drive down casts at fifteen miles per hour.
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  Speaker 1: But then I went to my very favorite scooters that
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  Speaker 1: I talk about all the time, a little tiny scooters.
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  Speaker 1: Not a pretty looking scooters, i'll admit, but it's right
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  Speaker 1: there on seventy eighth and Cass. I stopped by there
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  Speaker 1: every single morning. I see my group of friendly men
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  Speaker 1: outside drinking coffee and they always say hi, Mayor. But
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  Speaker 1: this morning, right when I pulled in the lot, I
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  Speaker 1: saw something that I've seen there before, and I thought,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, And here is a woman, nice woman with
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  Speaker 1: a dog, a nice looking dog, a whole bunch of kids,
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  Speaker 1: and she just walks up to the window.
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  Speaker 2: No car.
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  Speaker 1: I've been behind this woman before and it takes her
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  Speaker 1: thirty minutes. They chit chat and they talk and they talk,
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  Speaker 1: and there was this woman right in front of me,
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  Speaker 1: and then there was a woman with all the kids
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  Speaker 1: standing at the at the window that was there, and
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  Speaker 1: so I'm waiting. We waited probably fifteen minutes. Well, they
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  Speaker 1: chit chatted at the window. But here's the deal, here's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm getting to. The woman in front of me
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  Speaker 1: was looking at me, shaking her head, looking at me
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  Speaker 1: through the rear view mirror like when is this woman
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  Speaker 1: going to get going? I'm looking at her through my windshields,
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  Speaker 1: shaking my head. We're both laughing because it's taken so long.
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  Speaker 1: So I drive up to the window finally after about
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, and they said, the woman in front of
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  Speaker 1: you paid for your tea. So I want to thank her.
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  Speaker 1: If she buy any chances listening, I.
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  Speaker 3: Want to trash her on the radio for five.
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  Speaker 1: Listen then say oh, well thanks for not the woman
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  Speaker 1: with the dog and all the kids.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was a woman that was rolling her.
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  Speaker 1: Eyes and I was rolling my eyes back at her,
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  Speaker 1: and we are both shaking our heads like come on,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta get Somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: In my world there's a person who is of that
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  Speaker 3: same type. Yes, and this is the guy who at
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  Speaker 3: whether it's a bar or usually you're making the turn
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  Speaker 3: at a golf course. You're going into grab a gatorade
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  Speaker 3: or something like that. And there's a guy who is
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  Speaker 3: now leaning over the snack counter and I call him
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  Speaker 3: the I'm gonna do because he looks at the girl
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  Speaker 3: walking back there and he's like, all right, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna do. Uh and he and he's looking at
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  Speaker 3: like he's leaning over the counter, he's looking at the taps.
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  Speaker 3: What do you got on tap here? You gotta domes.
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  Speaker 2: Make up your mind, you got you got?
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  Speaker 3: And he's looking at buddies that aren't in, like they're
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  Speaker 3: just walking in. Who wants blue moods? You want something
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  Speaker 3: like that? I'm all right, I'm gonna do. No, wait,
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  Speaker 3: all right, forget everything I just said. I'm and I'm
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  Speaker 3: standing behind him going I hate I'm gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: Drives me nuts.
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  Speaker 1: It totally drives me nuts because I usually scoot through
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  Speaker 1: that scooters scoot on by or would they always say
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  Speaker 1: scoot on up really really quickly. But I know they
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  Speaker 1: was driving us crazy today. But I'm not making fun
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  Speaker 1: of this woman that walks up with her dog and
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  Speaker 1: all these kids walks up and spends fifteen minutes there
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  Speaker 1: chit chatting with everybody. But thank you to the woman
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  Speaker 1: who they call it pay it forward, right. I know
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have bought the person behind me something you didn't,
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  Speaker 1: but everybody behind me got angry and frustrated and loud.
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  Speaker 1: They just pulled out of the parking lot. I think
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  Speaker 1: we were the only two that stayed in line. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. That was very very nice. And Peyton, our
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  Speaker 1: man Peyton got married on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: Chris Baker and I were there. We sat together.
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  Speaker 1: My husband of course was with me too, and it
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  Speaker 1: was a great, great, great wedding.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: His wedding was at four o'clock. And what happened on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday at about two thirty, here comes the clouds of
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  Speaker 1: death rolling over Omaha, predicting high winds and predicting hale
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  Speaker 1: and a bad storm. And I'm thinking, oh gosh, I
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  Speaker 1: bet Peyton and Carly were losing their minds.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it all turned out.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't an outdoor wedding, I hope, no, thank goodness,
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  Speaker 1: it was not it. Yes, and it was an outdoor No,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't an outdoor wedding and then they had a
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  Speaker 1: reception way over in Trainer, Iowa. And I'm thinking, why
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  Speaker 1: in the world are they doing something in Trainer, Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: But it was in this like this remodeled barn that
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  Speaker 1: was absolutely beautiful. I mean, this was the most beautiful
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  Speaker 1: place I've ever been to a reception at.
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  Speaker 2: So it was it was.
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  Speaker 1: Really really nice, and Peyton looked handsome and his wife,
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  Speaker 1: Carly looked beautiful, and it was really really a nice night.
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  Speaker 1: And I got to meet Peyton's family. They say they
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  Speaker 1: listen every day. So if you're listening, what a great
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  Speaker 1: family he is from too.
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  Speaker 3: Oh they're not listening now he's not here. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's listen because he's here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's true. What am I thinking? They're not listening
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  Speaker 2: to me.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care about anything we say, no.
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  Speaker 2: Not at all. They just want to hear their boy.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, Peyton's mom and dad were great.
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  Speaker 1: I met Grandma, I met the whole family and really
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  Speaker 1: really nice people.
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  Speaker 3: So was it a traditional service and reception? Because Peyton
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  Speaker 3: is an outstanding young man and I've not had a
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  Speaker 3: chance to meet Carly a lot or spend a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time bothering her, but she seems like a very
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  Speaker 3: very sweet girl.
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  Speaker 4: She is.
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  Speaker 3: I would have been surprised if it was the kind
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  Speaker 3: of wedding where it's a bit more non traditional and
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  Speaker 3: the groups are coming in there after, you know, tailgating
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  Speaker 3: for three hours and they're showing up drunk. And no,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't. At the reception, there's a whole dance routine
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  Speaker 3: and everything, like they all come in.
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  Speaker 1: With some Korea something that was all choreographed and everything.
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  Speaker 3: No, it was classy.
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  Speaker 2: It was classy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not surprised.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was very very classy, and it was very beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: And Peyton didn't look nervous to me. He just kind
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  Speaker 1: of looked like he was a bit stunned, kind of overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, that's how I think.
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  Speaker 1: You plan, and you plan and you plan weddings, and
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  Speaker 1: then when the day finally comes, you're like, holy cow,
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  Speaker 1: this is it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I remember my wedding and it was twenty
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  Speaker 3: four years ago at this fall, and my wife still
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  Speaker 3: gets mad at me because I felt like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because Chris Baker and I weren't working together anymore. He
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  Speaker 3: was down in Texas and I'm in Kansas City, still,
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  Speaker 3: but he came up. He was one of my groomsmen,
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  Speaker 3: and I hadn't had a chance to see him in
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  Speaker 3: so long, and I knew he can come a long way.
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  Speaker 3: So I took ten minutes and he and I just
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  Speaker 3: excused ourselves from the reception and we were off in
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  Speaker 3: some other room in the place, just sitting there, just
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  Speaker 3: catching up for a few minutes, and just sitting there
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  Speaker 3: and decompressing. Well, I thought it was a wonderful thing.
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  Speaker 3: I needed a chance just to sit down, hang out
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  Speaker 3: with my buddy Chris. Meanwhile, my wife is in the
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  Speaker 3: reception going Has anyone seen my husband?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Did he leave?
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  Speaker 2: Where did he go?
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  Speaker 3: I felt like I was gone for three minutes. She
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  Speaker 3: thought I was gone for an hour. But it just
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  Speaker 3: seems like yesterday that was that was me in that tux.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: And you had Chris Baker as your grooms also, I'll.
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  Speaker 2: Tell you about Kevin and me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've only been married for four years now,
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  Speaker 1: but we got married.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to love this, Scott Vorhees.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but we got
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  Speaker 1: married on the eighteenth hole of Teeth of the Dog,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most famous golf courses in the world
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  Speaker 1: done in the Caribbean.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, yeah, did you like groups play through? Or you're like,
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  Speaker 3: hold on, we'll be done in a second.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how it all happened, but it was
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  Speaker 1: just like six o'clock in the evening and it was
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  Speaker 1: absolutely beautiful and the Caribbean was in the background and
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  Speaker 1: we were on the golf course and it was just
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  Speaker 1: absolutely beautiful. And our pictures are pretty too, And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people will say, well, how many people came
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  Speaker 1: me and Kevin and the guy that married us in
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  Speaker 1: the wedding and the wedding planners.
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  Speaker 3: That's cool, you know, it was really cool. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: surprised Kevin is about his golf.
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  Speaker 2: I am, yes he is.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, when you've been married before, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want a big wedding. You don't do a
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  Speaker 1: big wedding when you're married a second time. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it was it was really great and it was very pretty.
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  Speaker 1: So good luck to Peyton. And you know, since he's
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  Speaker 1: gone and he's not listening to me and you this morning,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you what I got him for
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  Speaker 1: a wedding present. Okay, because we talked about it on
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  Speaker 1: the air one day and I said, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I said. I was looking online to buy my grandson
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  Speaker 1: one of the official World Cup soccer balls, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the red and the green and the blue one that
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  Speaker 1: they played all up until the final, and he the
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  Speaker 1: official one and he said, oh gosh, I want one
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  Speaker 1: of those so badly, But he said, I'm getting married
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  Speaker 1: and I can't afford one because they got pretty pricey there,
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  Speaker 1: like they were one hundred and fifty or more. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: they kept on going up in price at Dix. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I got Peyton and Carly for a wedding Puss.
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  Speaker 1: I got him an official World Cup soccer Wait till
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  Speaker 1: she opens that present, she's gonna go oh gee gee.
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  Speaker 3: Peyden was. Peyton's enthusiasm for the World Cup actually was
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  Speaker 3: infectious and not annoying. I'm not a soccer fan, but
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  Speaker 3: I was impressed by his level of fandom, and I
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  Speaker 3: actually paid a bit more attention just because Peyton.
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  Speaker 1: Was Yes, and you know, my son was. I was
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  Speaker 1: a soccer mom. My son Andrew played soccer from kindergarten
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  Speaker 1: through college too, like Peyton did. My son was a goalkeeper.
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  Speaker 1: He started out well, he finished. He played at Westland.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, Andrew is six foot five, so he
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  Speaker 1: had a big wingspan. So I traveled a lot with Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: so I knew a lot about soccer, and I knew
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  Speaker 1: what soccer moms go through traveling with their kids, and
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  Speaker 1: so I I, you know, I knew a bit about soccer.
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  Speaker 2: But he helped me all through the World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: Peyton did because he was so excited about all these
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  Speaker 1: different teams. So anyway, good luck Peyton and Carly and
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  Speaker 1: he will be back a week from today.
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  Speaker 2: I believe.
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  Speaker 1: I believe there will you be back a week from Oh,
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  Speaker 1: guess where I'm going.
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  Speaker 3: I'm hoping. You got to tell people you're doing this.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to be here all week except Friday.
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  Speaker 1: I will be here the following Monday, a week from today,
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  Speaker 1: I will be here.
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  Speaker 2: But guess what I'm doing. You'll never guess.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter, Elizabeth and I are going to take a
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  Speaker 1: girl trip this weekend. We're going to fly to Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas on Friday and see the Backstreet Boys at the sphere.
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  Speaker 2: Can you believe I'm doing this?
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  Speaker 3: I can believe your daughter is doing it. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know about you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: She's like, come on, mom, let's do it. It'll be fun.
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  Speaker 1: We'll just go there, we'll have dinner, we'll go on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see the Backstreet Boys on Saturday, and we'll come
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  Speaker 1: back on Sunday. And I'm like, what the heck, I'm
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  Speaker 1: retired sorta, And so I said, yeah, I'll do it.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, then she said, but wait to hear this.
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  Speaker 1: If you go see a Backstreet Boy concert, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: wear white, you do.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, well, I think the only pure white
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  Speaker 1: thing I have is my wedding dress.
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  Speaker 2: Can I wear it?
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  Speaker 3: She's like, I think that'd be great.
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  Speaker 1: She said, only if you carry a sign around that
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  Speaker 1: says well you marry me.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, I'm not doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know any songs by the Backstreet Boys. This
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  Speaker 3: is a boy band from thirty years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but their songs are catchy.
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  Speaker 1: And you know they were at they were at Arena
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  Speaker 1: Convention Center probably I don't know, maybe five, six, seven
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  Speaker 1: years ago. And I took my daughter and my daughter
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  Speaker 1: in law and we went and saw the Backstreet Boys.
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  Speaker 2: They're fun.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, they're fun. I've had a chance, I've interviewed two
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  Speaker 3: of them. I've talked to Kevin and Howie. They were great.
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  Speaker 1: They're great, they said they put on a great show.
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  Speaker 1: But more than anything, I wanted to see this fear.
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  Speaker 2: I hear. That's just amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I hear you sit down and there's like a stage
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  Speaker 1: and you're thinking, oh, okay, whatever, and then the show
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  Speaker 1: starts and you're just surrounded by I don't know, I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to see it.
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  Speaker 3: So I got to go to the Sphere someday, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe i'd go see the Backstreet Boys.
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  Speaker 3: My wife dragged me to the New Kids on the
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  Speaker 3: Block concert and Lincoln a few years ago. Kicking and
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  Speaker 3: screaming or similar in terms of boy band, but not
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  Speaker 3: like the Sphere experience. But I gotta tell you that
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  Speaker 3: was one of the most fun shows I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: To it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles have played at the Sphere too.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to go back and see the.
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  Speaker 3: Eagles or you two.
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  Speaker 1: They started up right, they're great. So you know they
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  Speaker 1: were talking earlier about something I wanted to bring up. Scott,
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  Speaker 1: you and Lucy were But school is starting soon. I
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  Speaker 1: think Millard is starting this week. I think OPS is
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  Speaker 1: not starting till the nineteenth, till next week. I think
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  Speaker 1: West Side kind of staggers it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, cough button, thank you, but you started. School is starting.
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  Speaker 2: We got it.
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  Speaker 1: But you started talking a little bit about uniforms. I'd
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  Speaker 1: love to hear what our listeners think about uniforms, because
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  Speaker 1: here's what I think. A lot of parents say they
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  Speaker 1: love them. They feel like it takes out the competitiveness
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  Speaker 1: of wearing cool clothes or expensive jeans or whatever. This
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  Speaker 1: gal I went to a Catholic school and I wore
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  Speaker 1: uniform from first through eighth grade. I hate them. I
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  Speaker 1: wore the same uniform. It was a blue uniform. I
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  Speaker 1: went to a Catholic school in Wood River, Illinois, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and I was six feet tall by the time I
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  Speaker 1: was in eighth grade. Honest to god, I was, you
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  Speaker 1: know how tall the boys are in eighth grade. So
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  Speaker 1: the end of seventh grade, I said, Mom, I grew
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  Speaker 1: out of my uniform.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wear it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And she said, you're just you just have one more
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  Speaker 1: year wear it. So she didn't buy me a new
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  Speaker 1: one my eighth grade year. She said, I only had one.
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  Speaker 3: More year, and I guessing the skirt was too short.
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  Speaker 2: It just didn't fit me. I was six feet tall.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, I hate uniforms from that all eight years
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  Speaker 1: I wore them.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing different she would buy me.
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  Speaker 1: You had to wear this little white blouse underneath it,
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  Speaker 1: so I got different little white blouses. And you even
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  Speaker 1: had this little beanie thing you had to wear on
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  Speaker 1: your head. It was Saint Bernard's School. That's where I
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  Speaker 1: went one through or yeah, one through eight. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like uniforms now.
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  Speaker 3: You have great fashion sense and style, and you often
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  Speaker 3: wear a lot of things that are really colorful and flashy.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: Is that because you felt like you were so bottled
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: up with in those formative years for not being able
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: to express yourself to your clothes, that you just blow
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: it all out.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Now maybe that's what happened to me. I don't know,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: but I do like to wear real colorful things.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: I'd rather you don't see me in black too often.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: There was a former mayor I won't name his name
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: that apparently called my staff a couple of times and
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: criticized me, saying you need to do a fashion consulting
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: on Jean sto there she wears two brightly colored clothes.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: She needs to wear more like black navy blue suits.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: I am not a black and navy blue suit type
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: of gal with pearls in a white blouse.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: That's just not me.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: And the other reason when I became mayor, if anybody
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: has been on the third floor at City Hall, as
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: you walk down this big, long haul to the Mayor's office,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: there's portraits of every past mayor. Some of them they're
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: fascinating to look at it because one of them looks
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: like wild Bill Cody. They have you know, cowboy hats
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: on and really old fashioned looking pictures. Yeah, but every one.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Of course, there's fifty men. I was fifty one, So
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: there's fifty men, and they all had dark suits, white shirts,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: dark ties, and they all look angry. And I thought,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: I am not going to look like that in my pictures.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: So I wore the brightest blue suit I could find,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: and that Hopefully that's supposed to be hanging in the
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: hall after you leave office, hopefully they're still there.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: I hopefully they hung.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: I was there a few weeks ago. It's still there.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: It's my picture there. Yeah, it doesn't have fangs or horns.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: On.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: It does no mustache or nothing good, so it's there.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: But that's why.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: No, I just I just like to wear bright clothes.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: So anyway, I hate uniforms. I really would like to
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: know what people think about uniforms now. I gotta admit,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: they're cuter today. They're much cuter than they used to be.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Ours were ugly and the boys didn't have to wear
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: uniforms back in my day. And then the school do
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: you know this, here's more about my education. Who cares
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: about what I'm talking about right now? But my school
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: was so old. My eighth grade teacher, her name was
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Sister Charles, and she was extremely mean, and she was
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: about six foot four. We were all afraid of her.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: And she was an ursuline nun and she wore the
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: big habit with the great big wood and rosary beads.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: She was my dad's eighth grade teacher. That's how old
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Sister Charles was. She was old and mean and needed
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: to retire. But that's who I had as an eighth
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: grade teacher. Then I went to a public high school,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Wood River Eastalton Wood River Community High School over in Illinois,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: not Saint Louis in Illinois, and you know, if you
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: are from Saint Louis, that's a thing, because if you're
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: from Saint Louis, the first thing anybody says to you
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: is what high school did you go to? Because that
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: showed that shows your status. Yeah, and when I go
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: and when I was working in Saint Louis, I moved
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: to Saint Louis when I got out of nursing school.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I only lived in Saint Louis about ten years of
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: my entire life. But when I got over there, people
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: started asking me, you know what, well, what high school
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: did you go to? And when I would go Wood River,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: they would go.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: H oh okay, yeah, backups, you didn't stab them whatever.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: I know it. But anyway, that's that's my that's my
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: history of school.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I think I think people are looking the kids are
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: looking really forward. I think a lot of them are
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: going back now. The thing I hear a lot, and
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: you know, I was on the school board and Millard
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: for eleven years. They really really complain a lot about
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: going back so early. But the whole deal is in
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the state law that there's so many hours that you
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: have to put in your seats for elementary and for
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: second day and all of the school districts want each
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: semester to be almost the same length in hours seat hours,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: and they want the first semester to be over before
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Christmas break. They don't want you coming back taking finals
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: after Christmas break. So therefore, to achieve that and to
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: be let out by the end of May, then they
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: have to start earlier and earlier.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: And that's just the deal.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: But they were able to accomplish that when I was
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: in school, which I know was a million years ago now,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: but we would go back after Labor Day and the semester,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: you know in grade school is not really a semester,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: but it would be over by Christmas and you come
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: back and then you're out of there before Memorial Day
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: and then you had the full summer. But someone changed
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: that is it? Because parents are increasingly working. You either
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: only have one parent in the house and he or
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: she is working, or both parents are working, and they say,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: we don't have any place to put our kids throughout
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: the summer. We want them in school as much as possible.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: More from the babysitting aspect, I don't.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, that could have a little influence on it,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: but I think it's more looking for the achievement of
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the students. And I think they're saying, you know, are
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: our reading scores, our comprehension stores, our math scores in
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Nebraska the way we want them to be. What are
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: other school districts doing? What do they do in Europe
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: that they're so good? And I think that they want
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: to get the kids in their seats as much as
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: they can for improve their achievement.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: That's that's my opinion of it.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: It's not just well, let's be babysitters so the parents
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: can work.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: We've covered a lot of ground thus far. If you
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: want to join in on this, you can either email
• 20:39
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• 20:43
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• 20:46
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• 20:47
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• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Comment line with Gene stoth on News Radio eleven ten
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Kfab Jeen Stothard with your comment line, and Scott Vorhees
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: is here with us today. Scott, I wanted to talk
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a little bit about this. I think it's so interesting,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: this Blackstone wall collapse, and that is as you all know,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: it's a former Brothers lounge. It's located at thirty eight
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: twelve Farnham Street, and you know, there was an article
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: in the World Herald on August sixth. Steve Jensen was
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: at the press conference as well as some others and
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: mayor was not at that press conference, but they were
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: talking about that they were still trying to basically investigate
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: to figure out who was at fault and why this
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: We're gonna call it a void now I guess think
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Cole void.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: It's not a pothole, but why this occurred.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: There were owners of the property, the property was vacant
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: at the time. But at that press conference it did
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: say the city officials did say the city will not
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: assume responsibility for the structure nor its protection. And so
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: you know, that was about it. And then just recently
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and this was just in the newspaper on the on Sunday,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: August ninth, it did say that in a press conference
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: that Mary Ewing was having on another subject, then he
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: brought up and he said that the city would be
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: covering the cost, and so I thought that this was
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: it was an interesting change. He said that they that
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: they have ongoing negotiations, but they said to determine what
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the cost will be to repair or destroy it. But
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: he said the city is going to be covering the cost.
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Mary Eyuing went on to say that they're not admitting
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the city is involved in any way. They're trying to say,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: he said, we are trying to say we need to
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: get this resolved for the benefit of the business owners,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: even though again the building is vacant.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: But the surrounding area as well.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: And I think the main thing that I would be
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: concerned with is that people would think that the Blackstone
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: area is safe, even though that the streetcar construction is ongoing,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: that the streetcar is not going to cause all of
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: these cave ins and voids and things like that. So
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: knowing the city, knowing public works, they do a great job.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I know they were engineer. Many engineers in the Public
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Works department will really look into this and try to
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: figure out what happened and why it happened. But it's
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: really a total change of a position from the city
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: in just a few days from saying that we are
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: not going to do anything else about this to say
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: we are going to take responsibility right now and we
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: will pay for it. And at the same time, Sam,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: we're not admitting that the city is involved. Obviously the
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: city is involved. If the city is going to be
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: paying for it, and the city is involved for putting
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the streetcar down Farnham there. Now the big question is
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: why the cave in happened so interesting little change of
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: opinion there about what is going on. The other thing
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: that the article on Sunday said, which we're going to
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: have a guest back on. I'm going to wait till
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Wednesday to talk about this a little bit further. But
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Clark Ross has been on the show before and he's
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: a gentleman that owns a Mercury Bar, which is a
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: great bar which he says serves the best old fashions
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: in town. And he had me at old Fashion, I'm
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: gonna I gotta go visit this bar really sometime soon.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: But anyway, Clark Ross headed up the Streetcar Impact Alliance,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and that is a group of over one hundred small
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: businesses that were being very negatively impact by the construction
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: of the street car. Their revenues were down. He had
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: been meeting with the city trying to find out what
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: they could do so that those businesses would survive during
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: this construction. Now, all of you keep in mind that
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: construction now is taking two years longer then we originally
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: had planned. Originally, the street car was supposed to be
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: done and up and running by the end of twenty
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: twenty six this year. Now it is twenty twenty eight.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Pretty certain by the end of twenty twenty eight it
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: will be up and running, But that adds two more
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: years of hardship for these small businesses. Now the big
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: businesses that are really gonna benefit from these street cars,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: you know, a mutual of Omaha Union Pacific. There's a
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: strange sound in here.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: First National.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, I just sounded like there's some jackhammering going on there.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: I bet you could hear that on the air.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I bet you or a helicopter. Helicopters laid it on
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: the roof.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Holy Chris Baker has arrived for work.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I guess so with his entourage.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: What the heck is that?
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Can you hear this on the air?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: I bet you you who knows? But here we go.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Our building is an absolute disgrace, and I imagine that
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: there's some foundation issue.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I like, oh, maybe we're going to cave in.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: That's fine, Yeah, apparently the Mayrill pay for it.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: We don't have a streetcar going up underwood dew we
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: holy oh no.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: But anyway, back to this serious issue we were talking
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: about before with the Omaha Impact or street Car Impact Alliance.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about this on Wednesday because Clark's going to
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: be in But there is an anonymous donor.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I know who the donor is.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, but anyway, there is a donor that
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: has contributed money to the Nebraska Enterprise Fund to help
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: these businesses that are impact and they're big loans. I
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: mean they start out at ten thousand dollars loans. In
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: phase two they can go up to fifty thousand dollars
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: forgive them a loans, and they have additional grants. There's
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: an application process. The applications are still open. I think
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: they're going to be open until January. But we'll talk
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: about the details with that. But a very very well
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: known philanthropist in Omaha felt really really bad, personally bad
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: about what was happening to these small businesses. And interestingly enough,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and I'll admit this on the air, that donor. I
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: talk to that donor, and that donor said, you know,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: we want to help as much as we can. We
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: want to help these small businesses survive. It's for all
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: of us at it's helping all of us, including those
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: big businesses. It's helping all of us if those businesses
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: all stay up and running and survive. But the donor said,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: but I don't want anybody to think I support the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: street car because I don't, and I'm like, got it,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: got it. So you know, people have real strong opinions
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: about it. And even this person that is so generous
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: to put money in this fund is just saying I
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: want to help.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: But I still don't like the streetcar. So you know,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: we'll get through that period.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Hopefully I might be long gone, dead and buried, but
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I think people are going to say, whoever thought of
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: this streetcar had the right thing going, because I do
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: still feel very very strongly that once it's up and running,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: people are going to love it. I want to debate
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Jim Rows on that because he hates it too, and
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: he will always hate it.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: We have to have a debate now that the streetcar
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: has come up, before we get a wave of emails
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: and phone calls about it. Let's go in a couple
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: of other directions, because this is the kfab comment line.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Jean Stouth, your host comment to kfab dot com. First
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: of all, a number of people have emailed and said,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: we can hear that noise of the jackhammer in the background.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Rob says on school uniforms. Rob says, maybe we could
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: use all white uniforms and we can all go to
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: the Backstreet Boys concert. And then Sam emailed or rather called,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: and prefaced his call by saying, look, you guys say
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: you'll take a call on anything. So Sam, you're on
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: news radio eleven to ten kfab comment line with Jean
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Stot the good morning, Hi Geene, Hi Scott, good morning.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: So this is kind of totally going a separate direction
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: than anything you guys have talked about this morning so far.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: But with the summer coming to a slow close and
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: holiday and all this stuff coming up with family, I
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: wanted your advice because I've got my wife has an
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: aunt and uncle. They live out in or they live
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: over in the kind of district sixty six area, fairly wealthy,
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: kind of elitist democrat type people. And my biggest thing
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: is whenever we do Christmas Thanksgiving with them. And I
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: don't have a problem with them having completely opposite political viewpoint.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: My biggest problem that my wife grabs my thigh under
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: the table and tinges it when she knows I'm going
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: to get tempted. But they just have this arrogant smug
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: like they just assume that you're a complete socialist democrat too.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: They were over the other day and she said, well,
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: you know, we're watching the morning news Morning Joe on
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: MS NOW or whatever the MSDNC was, and she says, like,
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: you do, you know, like you do every morning, and
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: she just comes in with this assumption that you're on
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: the same page as her. And I don't say anything
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: like that. I just keep it strictly non political. And
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: it's just it's gotten really hard over the years to
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: bite my tongue when they start spouting that crap. I't
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: your advice.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've been in that situation a time or two.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I have been in that situation many, many, many times.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: And you know what, First of all, I was going
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: to say, just don't bring it up, because when you do,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: you're not going to win this argument. But a lot
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: of times, like you said, you can't, and my example,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I'll give you, I mean plenty of examples when I
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: was mayor because I didn't, you know, half my staff
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: in the Mayor's office, I didn't know if they were
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Democrat or Republican.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: I truly didn't.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: I didn't care as long as they they agreed with,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: you know, the direction and the focus that we had,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: and they were doing a good job. I really didn't care.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to bring this up. My son Andrew. Now,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Andrew is going to be in town next week for
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: a little event, and I'm going to bring him to
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: the studio one day. But we're not talking politics. My
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: son was a Republican. He's very smart. I mean, he's
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: got his PhD. And he has become the biggest liberal
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: there is. And we took I was given him. This
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: is a kind of funny story. Last summer, I wanted
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: to give him some furniture. He lives in Cincinnati now,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: and the only way we could I could get it
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: there is I said, okay, I'll pay for a van
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and you drive.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: This is the deal. I'm not driving this big van.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: And so we drove to Cincinnati together, boy, me and
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: him in a truck for twelve hours driving to Cincinnati.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: I had to avoid the politics subject. Anytime he brought
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: it up. I had to say, well, I'm going to
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: read right now. You know, I got something to look
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: at right now, because you're there's no reason to argue it.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's you're not going to win, and I
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: worry about that. Like you said, with holidays and families
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: getting together, it is just right now, it is so volatile,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: and that they're there, people are just rabbit about their opinions. Now,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: that's the last thing you want to do at a
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: holiday table, and if it comes up, I would just
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: avoid it. I have many, many friends that I do
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of things with that feel completely different about
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: politics than I do, and I just I mean, there's
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: one in particular that I'm thinking of that's very well
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: known in Omaha and a philanthropist, and I have lunch
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: with this person quite often. But boy, we stay away
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: from politics because we just there's no there's no winning it.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I think if people start arguing and people start talking
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  Speaker 1: about it, I just completely stay out of it.
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  Speaker 2: I do now.
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  Speaker 1: My husband, Kevin's the opposite. He's always ready for a fire.
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  Speaker 1: And my husband's best friend lives in Baltimore, and whenever
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  Speaker 1: we are with this man and his wife, his name
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  Speaker 1: is Mike, they go at it. I mean they just
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: fight over politics all the time.
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  Speaker 2: They're best friends. So they I mean, some people can
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 1: This guy, his friend is very very liberal, and my husband,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Kevin is very very conservative, and boy, when they get together,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: sparks fly. But they're still best friends, so they can
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: argue about it, and they're both really smart people. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm like you, I'm saying, I'm kicking him under the
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  Speaker 1: table and squeezing his legs, saying, move on, Kevin, let's
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: talk about something else.
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  Speaker 3: Good luck, Sam, We'll talk about something else here. I
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: just got it on that front, though. You got to
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: decide whether you need to be proven right about politics,
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: which in that person's eyes, you never will be. So
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: do I need to feel like I'm right? Or do
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: I value the relationship I have with this other person,
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: and or if they just really start in, just go, hey,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: thank you very much for telling me. Do you want
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: some more gravy?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I mean, everybody has different opinions with politics,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: they always have. But the one thing that I really
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: struggled with, and I'm gonna be honest with you with
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: this with Mayor is even though I said people knew
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I was a Republican, people knew I was conservative, I
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: did say and I did say many many times, I
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: hear Brinker Harding saying the same thing right now.
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  Speaker 2: But I will represent all of you.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: All of you in Omaha mean a lot to me,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: and I don't care if you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: you're black, white or brown, your male or female, none
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: of that matters to me. I will represent you all
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  Speaker 1: equally and I will fight for you. And people would
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: get mad at me for saying that. I mean, they
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: would really get mad, and they would say, basically, how
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: dare you say you'll represent the Democrats. Well, that's what
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: you have to do when you're an elected official. And
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: now when I hear some of these races, in particular,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I got a b up CD two with Denise Palell,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I will fight for the blue dot. We are going
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: to get rid of Trump, We're gonna get rid of police,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get rid of ice, we're gonna get rid
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: of prisons, whatever, all their their agenda is now, And
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: you've got to question yourself, would they represent me?
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Do they even care about me?
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: And so that's what I think has become so rough
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: with politics now is if you don't agree with somebody,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: you're bad. And you know people would turn around and
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: call me, Oh, you're just a rhino because you say
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: you will you will be fair to the Democrats. No,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not changing who I am for a vote.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: But if you are an elected official, whether you're Denise
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: pal or Jean Stothart or Brinker Harding or Jim Pillen,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: you have to represent all of your constituents.
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  Speaker 3: Very big of you. I would always ask the people
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: who have the sign that's there in this in this
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: house we support women. And I was like, oh, are
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: you wanting to get Jean Stothart reelected? Not that woman?
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, well I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know how that sometimes that does happen, but you know,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: and I always played that down too, because I did
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: not want people to for one reason, I did not
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: want them to say I'm going to vote for her
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: because she's a woman. I wanted them to vote for
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  Speaker 1: me because they thought I could do the job.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Bill. You're on the KFAB comment line with Jean Stotter.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning morning, Yeah, good morning, and.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: Mayor.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: I love your show. I take my break every day
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: at ten o'clock and sit in my vehicle for an
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: hour and listen to you guys almost every day. Well,
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: thank you absolutely. I know in the beginning of the
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: street car, Oh, I'm I'm going to go back maybe
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: six eight months ago, So there was a dollar amount
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: that was thrown out about helping these businesses along the
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: construction route. Do you happen to remember what that fund
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: was or how big it was?
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, I do, and that the original fund, we called
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: it the Hardship Fund. It was run through the Greater
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Oma Chamber of con and we were able to get
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: together not not direct taxpayer money, but there was some
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: money that one of the businesses that was going working
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: on another project decided to donate to this fund, and
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: from several sources we came up with about one and
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: a quarter million one point two five million, But that's
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: that was how much we had accumulated by the time
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I left office. But we knew we needed more and
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: we knew that there needed to be a lot more
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: in that fund. So that fund, of the one point
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: twenty five million had already been dispersed apparently after I
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: left office, to most of the businesses that applied for
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: it that were in the Blackstone, but there are a
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: lot of other businesses of course, all the way down
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: to Eighth Street, East Downtown that were very negatively affected,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: and we knew that we needed more money, and so
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I know I had talked to the Chamber many times
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: about what type of philanthropy might be involved and other
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: sources where we could come up with more money.
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  Speaker 2: But then you know, it came.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: It wasn't out, it was out of my hands after
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: last June of twenty twenty five. So this amount of
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: money that is going into this fund now, and it's
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: going to be run through the Nebraska Enterprise Fund, which
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: is through this state. The Nebraska Enterprise Fund is through
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: the state that's going to be taking these applications and
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: giving out these loans. I am not sure of the
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: total amount, but there is multiples of millions in that
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: account right now, and that came primarily from one very
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: generous donor from the city of Omaha.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Bill. Thank you very much for the call there about
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: the streetcar. We knew it was going to happen. I
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: love that. Up next here, Jim, you are on the
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: KFAB comment line with Jean Stout the good morning.
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: What's your comment, Jim, Yes, I want.
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: To know they built that new detention center downtown right
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: across the street from the courthouse, the old.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: Mud building, and there's nobody in it.
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: We're paying twenty thousand dollars a month maintenance according to
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: the newspaper. Why are we building another facility out there
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: at the crossroads for what do they call it? For
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: thirty four million dollars. No, they knew that when they
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: knew that the one building wasn't going to work.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm glad you asked that question because I can
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: answer that question. That Douglas County Slash Youth Center that
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: is vacant right now. Part of that whole building is
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: occupied by the Juvenile Court justices or Juvenile Court judges.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Part of that building is occupied. But the part of
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: the building that was going to be the takeover for
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the Douglas County Youth Center, which is still still in operation.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: There's probably I think when Don Klin was on here,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: he said that there was about one hundred youth still
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: in there. It wasn't built big enough and that's why
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: it remains empty. Here's the difference is that was built
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: by Douglas County. The Douglas County, the Douglas County Board
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: are the ones that made the decision on that approved
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: the design on that the City of Omaha had absolutely
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with that building, and we don't own it,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: we don't occupy it. I tried to get involved when
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: I was mayor. It was way back when Marty Bielick
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: was my chief of staff. Marty used to be the
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: chief deputy under Tim Dunning with the Douglas County Sheriff's Department.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: We did a lot of research on that. We went
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: down to the Douglas County Youth Center, the one that
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: they're in now. We went over and talked to the
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Juvenile court justices, and then we wanted to meet with
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: a couple members of the county board and we were
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: actually told back off. This isn't your business, it's our business.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: You don't need to get involved. And so that's why
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: that the city has really no authority, no claim over
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: that vacant building. When I was mayor, and I know
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: people hate hearing me say this over and over again,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: but how can I get this story out? I was
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: looking for a new fire police public safety headquarter. I
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: felt like it would run more efficiently, but I was
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: looking for a spot downtown. We had two sites picked out,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: we were evaluating those. I thought that's where this facility
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: needed to be, but they made the decision to put
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: it out at the Crossroads facility. Now that's not a
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: sure thing. And this new building is about one hundred
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: and seventy million dollar building and it will only be
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: built if you all vote for it in a bond
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: issue and that will be on the ballot in November,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: so there's the difference. The fire Police headquarters will be
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: city owned, city owned and operated. The Douglas County Youth Center,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: which are the building which sits vacant, is owned by
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Douglas County.
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  Speaker 3: Jim. You can call and ask p Morgan about that
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: someday when he's hosting the KFAB Comment Line, But for
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: right now, it is Jeene Stothard. You did service Mayor
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: for a very long time, and thank you for serving
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: as the host of the KFABE comment Line today.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Well, you know what, I'm having a ball doing it.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: But if you miss this show or any of our show,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: the podcast are usually up by noon. But that is
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: it for us today. Thank you for spending this hour
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: with us. We'd love for you to join us tomorrow.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Brett Leinsterm will be with us tomorrow. I am Jean
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  Speaker 1: Stothard and this is eleven ten kfab