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Omaha Youth Climate Change Action Plan · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Jean Stothard. Peyton high Lock almost
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  Speaker 1: miss pronounced your name, Peyton high Lock. My producer is
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  Speaker 1: also here today.
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  Speaker 2: How are you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing really good, Gina good, and 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. We want to hear
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  Speaker 1: your comments, concerns, questions, complaints. Anything goes city, state, national,
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  Speaker 1: the world, and we will have guests. We had a
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  Speaker 1: good guest yesterday, we had the deputy campaign manager for
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  Speaker 1: Pete Rickett's campaign. If you all listened, did and have
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  Speaker 1: any comments or questions about that interview, please let us
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  Speaker 1: have them today. But you will also hear a lot
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  Speaker 1: of opinions from me. But it is your chance to
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  Speaker 1: speak up and sound off. So you can send your
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  Speaker 1: emails to comment at kfab dot com or you can
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  Speaker 1: call us at four two five five eight eleven ten.
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  Speaker 1: And we are so happy that you are with us. Peyton,
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  Speaker 1: I was listening to Scott was playing this interview in
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  Speaker 1: Congress today with doctor Fauci, and it did make my
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  Speaker 1: blood pressure go up. I'm telling you, if all of
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  Speaker 1: you have not been listening at all, just take about
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  Speaker 1: ten or fifteen minutes. It doesn't take long to see
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  Speaker 1: where it's going. But Jony Ernst was just hammering him
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  Speaker 1: and ever, I mean, she just laid it out. She
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  Speaker 1: did such a good job, Senator Ernst from Iowa. Every
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  Speaker 1: single question he answered with he pleads the fifth.
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  Speaker 2: He won't answer anything.
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  Speaker 1: But some of the items, some of the facts and
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  Speaker 1: information that she revealed were enough to turn your stomach
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  Speaker 1: of what he did, what he covered up, what was
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  Speaker 1: really going on? This is going to be I know
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  Speaker 1: we have it on playing in the studio now, but
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  Speaker 1: this sound is off. But he is testifying right now
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  Speaker 1: Fauci at the COVID Origin's hearings, and they do have
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  Speaker 1: his his diary that he kept and when that became
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  Speaker 1: public yesterday it was released and when you read it,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness, does the guy have an ego?
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  Speaker 2: And did he love the publicity?
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  Speaker 1: And he was just I mean, it's just it's just
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  Speaker 1: amazing to listen to this going on. So if all
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  Speaker 1: of you haven't listened, you need to listen to some
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Can you play just a little of it now and
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  Speaker 1: let's see. I wish we could have the Joni Ernst,
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  Speaker 1: but I think let's just play a little and see
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  Speaker 1: if we can get I think right now there's a
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  Speaker 1: commentation going on, though. I want to hear one of
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  Speaker 1: the senators asking him some questions.
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  Speaker 3: The thing that these senators are asking, well, maybe here
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  Speaker 3: we go.
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  Speaker 4: Jebruary first of twenty fourteen and January nineteenth of twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty five, arising from or in any manner related to
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  Speaker 4: his work. Now you've heard some talk about this pleading
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  Speaker 4: the fifth and how that would work out. There are
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  Speaker 4: some exceptions. And by the way, the titles that he
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  Speaker 4: had are all covered Director of National Institute of Allergy
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  Speaker 4: and Infectious Disease, White House Coronavirus Task Force, and White
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  Speaker 4: House COVID nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is not yet the part I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get to. I want to get to when the senators
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  Speaker 1: are actually asking him questions and he is pleading the
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  Speaker 1: fifth with every single question, he won't answer anything.
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  Speaker 5: And in his body language all morning, for the last
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  Speaker 5: two hours three hours, has just been like he's such
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  Speaker 5: an inconvenience for him to be there. He's checking his watch,
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  Speaker 5: he's rolling his eyes, he's drooping his eye. He just
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  Speaker 5: looks so uninterested.
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  Speaker 1: And arrogant about the yeah thing, but holy cow, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is a world wide event and it looks like
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what he has done and what he was
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  Speaker 1: engaged in and what the truth is coming out is.
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  Speaker 2: It is very very disturbing.
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  Speaker 5: You know, there were videos of grandkids hugging their grandparents
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  Speaker 5: through a plastic protection. You know, they'd hang up plastic
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  Speaker 5: in the house or in the driveway and the kids
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  Speaker 5: would hug through the plastic.
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  Speaker 3: There's so many stories.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, there certainly was a virus, and there
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  Speaker 1: certainly was a pandemic. It's just the origins of this
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  Speaker 1: and that were covered up and the testing of it
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  Speaker 1: when Joni Ernst was laying it out and asking him
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  Speaker 1: about using parts of five month aborted fetuses human fetuses
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  Speaker 1: to do testing on mice about with the COVID virus.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it is it's.
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  Speaker 1: Just something what's all coming out. So anyway, we've got
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  Speaker 1: that on. We're trying to watch that out of the
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  Speaker 1: corner of our eye here. If anybody has any comment
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  Speaker 1: on that or is listening to that. Yesterday, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: we had Max oberg On who is the deputy campaign
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  Speaker 1: manager for Ricketts for Senate, and you know, I still
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  Speaker 1: want to go back to what we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: about the candidates in this election. Dan Osborne has been
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  Speaker 1: invited to be on the Chris Baker Show and My show,
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  Speaker 1: Independent dan Osborne. But the one thing that I think
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  Speaker 1: that we really need to keep in mind those of
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  Speaker 1: us that are conservative and listening, and any of us
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  Speaker 1: that are listening, whether you're Democrat, Independent, or Republican, is
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  Speaker 1: you know a lot of these socialist candidates that are
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  Speaker 1: on the ballot may have some appeal until reality sets in.
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  Speaker 1: And reality again is you know, the Senate is organized
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  Speaker 1: into majority and minority parties. And Osborne is now trying
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  Speaker 1: to protect himself or claim he's an independent and say
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  Speaker 1: he will not cauc us with Democrats or Republicans, But do.
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  Speaker 2: We believe that?
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  Speaker 1: And you know, he's an outsider with this, and to
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  Speaker 1: effectively move legislation, you have to be and the majority,
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  Speaker 1: as Senator Ricketts is and will likely be in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven, the Senate operates on a seniority system and
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  Speaker 1: the independent really doesn't fit into that process at all.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, that label is really, in my
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  Speaker 1: opinion to hear your opinion, being used to really cover
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  Speaker 1: up what Osborne's intentions are and they are obvious to
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  Speaker 1: adopt and promote Democrat ideas without the label of being
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  Speaker 1: a Democrat. But working within a party is how progress
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  Speaker 1: is made in the Senate. And so you know what
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  Speaker 1: this little charade they're putting on here, especially since Cindy
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  Speaker 1: Burback dropped out, I mean, it's becoming all so clear
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  Speaker 1: what is going on. But again, we talked about this
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  Speaker 1: a little bit yesterday. But the supreme law of the
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  Speaker 1: land of the United States is the United States Constitution,
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  Speaker 1: and many of these socialist candidates are advocating to change that,
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  Speaker 1: and we have to keep that in mind. The Declaration
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  Speaker 1: of Independence is the founding document of the United States,
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  Speaker 1: that all men are created equal and by their creator
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  Speaker 1: and certain given certain unalienable rights. They don't believe that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: They're questioning that. It's a big concern and should be
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  Speaker 1: a big concern to all of us. Democrats have a
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  Speaker 1: different opinion all of this. And then we come to
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  Speaker 1: the Pledge of Allegiance. And we see in many events
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  Speaker 1: that we have been to college World Series, in particular,
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  Speaker 1: when they get up to sing the national anthem and
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  Speaker 1: people stand and put their hands over their heart, how
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  Speaker 1: many people, did you see, because I saw many that
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  Speaker 1: set and that was basically a you know, to show
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  Speaker 1: their defiance against it, to show they don't agree with it.
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  Speaker 2: These are things that you know, we are.
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  Speaker 1: I'm worried we're losing America in this right now, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what the big concern should be. I said on
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  Speaker 1: this show about two months ago that I was a patriot.
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  Speaker 2: I used that term.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody called in immediately and said that was a slap
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  Speaker 1: in the face that I said I was a patriot
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't fight on the front lines in World
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  Speaker 1: War One and World World War Two. And I said, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: I am as much of a patriot as anyone I
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  Speaker 1: know high school kids that are patriots. To me, a
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  Speaker 1: patriot is somebody who loves our country, who would fight
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  Speaker 1: for our country, and who would die for our country.
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  Speaker 1: How many of these socialists that are running for elections
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  Speaker 1: now would be considered a patriot. I consider myself a patriot,
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  Speaker 1: and it doesn't make any difference that I didn't fight
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  Speaker 1: in World War One or World War Two. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there were women flying bombers in World War Two over
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  Speaker 1: the ocean over to Europe. I mean they were involved.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't in the front lines, but they were very
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  Speaker 1: much involved. And there are a lot of women in
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  Speaker 1: the military now, not on the front lines, but there are.
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  Speaker 1: But that shouldn't that shouldn't enter into this equation. It
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  Speaker 1: should be how you feel about your country.
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  Speaker 5: Would some of the Democrats socialists even want to be
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  Speaker 5: considered a patriot?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they would. I mean for somebody like
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  Speaker 1: Chevalier that was just won the primary. That's how I
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  Speaker 1: say her name. Woman with the white glasses in New
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  Speaker 1: York City that said that when she couldn't find a napkin,
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  Speaker 1: she wiped her dirty hands off on an American flag.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. And I still go back and question,
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  Speaker 1: are these people, how are they going to be sworn
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  Speaker 1: into office? Because when they're sworn in, it's the same
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  Speaker 1: oath of office that I took for mayor and for
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  Speaker 1: the city council members to take. And you swear to
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  Speaker 1: support the Constitution in the United States of America. That's
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  Speaker 1: part of the oath of office. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what are they going to do, sit down and stand
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  Speaker 1: on their hands or what. I don't know, But this
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  Speaker 1: is something, boy, We've got to watch this election and
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  Speaker 1: we have got to stay engage and we have got
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  Speaker 1: to get out and vote. We'll go back to the
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  Speaker 1: negative campaigning. We played the jingle that Ricka's campaign is playing,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is funny and lighthearted. Gets a point out.
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  Speaker 1: But it seems like we are going to be all
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  Speaker 1: of us are going to be so sick of these
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  Speaker 1: commercials when they come on and they the intent of
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  Speaker 1: these commercials are to confuse you, the voter. You are
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  Speaker 1: going to hear lie after lie after lie, and these
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  Speaker 1: campaigns aimed at confusing you thinking that some of these
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  Speaker 1: candidates are going to solve all your problems and they're
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  Speaker 1: going to make your life better, when indeed they are not.
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  Speaker 1: I believe we might have an email that you told
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  Speaker 1: me this morning that I forgot to get to I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have time.
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  Speaker 2: To get to you yesterday. Could you read it and
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  Speaker 2: let's talk a little bit more about that.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, this came from Howard, and the general idea of
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  Speaker 5: the email is promises that are made during political campaigns.
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  Speaker 5: I just wanted to share my thoughts on promises made
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  Speaker 5: by politicians. Years ago, in my high school Civics class,
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  Speaker 5: we studied propaganda and how it was used The point
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  Speaker 5: that is stuck with me over the years was the
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  Speaker 5: phrase glittering generalities. Essentially, it's vague comments on what a
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  Speaker 5: candidate intends to do if elected. That's it, no details,
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  Speaker 5: but statements meant to make the voter feel good and
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  Speaker 5: all happy and warm and fuzzy inside.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know a couple of things I want to
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  Speaker 1: say about that this This person is very right, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is accurate. We did bring up that yesterday in
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  Speaker 1: the interview with Senator Ricketts campaign manager that Osborne. Dan
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  Speaker 1: Osborne is doing a lot of commercials criticizing Senator Ricketts
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  Speaker 1: all the little rich boy that his daddy gives him everything.
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  Speaker 1: But he doesn't come out and say what he is
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  Speaker 1: going to do different. He goes from one criticism of
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  Speaker 1: Ricketts to another and says, I will make it better
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  Speaker 1: with my own campaign. My last one, I mean all
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  Speaker 1: of them were brutal, but my last one.
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  Speaker 2: What did we hear? No bed bugs.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to fix all the streets on Skyline Drive
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  Speaker 1: without any cost to the homeowners. No sinkholes, no potholes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to come up with a new recipe for concrete.
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  Speaker 1: People thought, wow, that sounds good after the election. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna plow snow a lot better too.
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  Speaker 1: That was another good one. First snowstorm they had under
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  Speaker 1: new mayor Ewing. They public works, I know. They ask them,
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  Speaker 1: what difference do you want us to do? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we have a plan that won a national award on
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  Speaker 1: snow and ice removal. Oh, I just said that. I
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  Speaker 1: don't really have a better plan. I just said that
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  Speaker 1: to get elected. Basically, people do lie to get elected
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  Speaker 1: and then once they get elected, they don't deliver. And
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  Speaker 1: this happens. Now, why does campaign negative campaign happen Because
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  Speaker 1: it works because people do believe it. So that's why
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  Speaker 1: I say, get engaged. Know what these candidates are telling you.
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  Speaker 1: Go to these forums and ask them the questions. Say,
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  Speaker 1: give me a yes or no answer. Do you have
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  Speaker 1: a better solution, What is your solution for this? What
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  Speaker 1: is your solution for that? Give me an answer, don't
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  Speaker 1: just criticize the other opponent. And again, I have been
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  Speaker 1: in nine elections, and every one of them I told
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  Speaker 1: my campaign I said, I want to tell the voters
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  Speaker 1: why to vote for me. I don't want to waste
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  Speaker 1: time telling the voters why not to vote for my opponent.
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  Speaker 1: It was just focused on what I am going to
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  Speaker 1: do and what I want to achieve, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that's the way to go. Now, did it always work
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  Speaker 1: for me? It works seven out of nine times. But
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  Speaker 1: still there's a lot of reasons why my last election.
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  Speaker 1: Voter fatigue is a big thing too. I mean, people
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  Speaker 1: just get tired of you. But this is why this
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  Speaker 1: negative campaigning works, because they make it sound like your
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  Speaker 1: life is going to be so much better if you
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  Speaker 1: elect them instead of their opponent. And then are they
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  Speaker 1: going to deliver? Can they even deliver? And the answer
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  Speaker 1: nine times out of ten is no gene. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to switch topics just a little bit here. I think
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  Speaker 1: this is very interesting and this comes on the basis
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  Speaker 1: of climate change. And this is an article from a
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  Speaker 1: book called North of the Platte, South of the Niabrera,
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  Speaker 1: author Brian L.
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  Speaker 5: Jones. A book was copyrighted in twenty eighteen. And I'm
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  Speaker 5: just going to read this little segment right here. The
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  Speaker 5: sand Hills are a great record of climate change. Based
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  Speaker 5: on the discovery of a burned forest tree analysis carbon
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  Speaker 5: dating by a geologist and a hydrogologist in nineteen thirty five.
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  Speaker 5: This discovery proved three long periods of drought lasting eighteen
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  Speaker 5: years twenty six years, and the third one nineteen years
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  Speaker 5: of drought between approximately thirteen hundred and fifteen hundred. Not
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  Speaker 5: much human activity at this time. Our climate change. Our
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  Speaker 5: climate changes based on the distance between the Earth and
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  Speaker 5: the Sun, not a direct correlation of human activity.
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  Speaker 3: You have.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the facts. I mean, it's true.
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  Speaker 1: And and if you look at at the history of the Earth,
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  Speaker 1: I mean there has been climate change over and over
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  Speaker 1: and over in the history of our planet. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it just has. There's been There was an ice age,
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  Speaker 1: remember the dinosaurs and what happened to the dinosaurs? Things
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  Speaker 1: have changed. Are there little things that we can do?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: I think there are are are I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: throwing trash into the ocean, throwing trash into waterways, you know,
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  Speaker 1: keeping all of our public waterways clean.
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  Speaker 2: That's good.
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  Speaker 1: If we can recycle as much as we can it,
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  Speaker 1: it's okay. I mean I do it. I mean my
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  Speaker 1: recycle bin is packed. Am I going to change the
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  Speaker 1: climate of the world with this? No?
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  Speaker 2: If everybody does it, are they?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, I mean the the mayor
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  Speaker 1: of Lincoln is a good friend of mine, Mayor Baird
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  Speaker 1: and Larian Baird, Gaylord Baird and Gaylord Bears of Mayor Lincoln,
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  Speaker 1: and I like her and she I asked her once
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  Speaker 1: what he her main issue that she was dealing with
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  Speaker 1: and Lincoln is and she told me climate And I thought,
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  Speaker 1: but what I mean, really, what are you going to
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  Speaker 1: do as mayor to really have a big effect on climate?
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  Speaker 1: And that brings me to that Mayor Ewing just announced
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  Speaker 1: that that Omaha is going to join the Blueberg Philanthropies
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  Speaker 1: Youth Climate Action Fund, and he is going to have
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  Speaker 1: about fifty thousand dollars fifty thousand, which in the scope
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  Speaker 1: of things isn't a whole lot, but that Omaha now
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  Speaker 1: will partner with organizations to support implementations from start to
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  Speaker 1: finish to help young residents lead in carrying their plans
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  Speaker 1: about climate and they want to and it has to
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  Speaker 1: do with public spaces, strengthening infrastructure, infrastructure, mitigating disasters, building
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  Speaker 1: resistance or yes, I don't even even understand what all
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  Speaker 1: this is. He said that Maror Ewing says the grant
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  Speaker 1: supports one of his key priorities, bolstering Omaha's climate risk
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  Speaker 1: and resilience, and he says the city is already working
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  Speaker 1: on implementing a climate action plan. Yes, the city is,
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  Speaker 1: and now we need to engage our youth. And I
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  Speaker 1: will tell you this the last budget hearing. There's always
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  Speaker 1: a budget hearing, a public budget hearing after the mayor
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  Speaker 1: presents the budget. My last one was in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Ewing's first one was in twenty twenty It was
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  Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty six budget. Mine was for the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five budget. And one of the biggest groups
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  Speaker 1: of people that came to that public budget hearing were youth.
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  Speaker 1: They were teenagers saying more needed to be in the
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  Speaker 1: city budget for climate. But when we said what particularly
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  Speaker 1: would we put money in the budget to do to
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  Speaker 1: affect client, they didn't have an answer. They liked the buzzword, Well,
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  Speaker 1: we need to do more for climate. We need to
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  Speaker 1: do more, we need more money in the budget. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you don't put any money in the budget unless it
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  Speaker 1: has a specific per purpose because this is taxpayer dollars. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we just need more money to do things for climate.
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  Speaker 1: Well what are we going to use the money for?
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  Speaker 1: Don't have an answer, So I don't know if this
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  Speaker 1: is what mayor Ewing's plan is. I think that you
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  Speaker 1: said he's going to be on the Chris Baker Show.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you can ask maryor Ewing about this. But what
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  Speaker 1: is the youth in Omaha going to do to affect climate?
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Geen, and that's why we're having him on the show.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: It's tough, it's kind of hard to follow. I don't
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: know exactly what's going on. The thing that I will
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: just point out when you were reading it, it would
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: provide fifty thousand dollars with young people's ideas, the strongest
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: proposals and funding them for technical assistance. But then the
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: next pair paragraph, it seems to me that it would
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: be multiple fifty thousand dollars funding for these students, not
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: just a singular one, because then it goes down to say,
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: municipalities that quickly deploy their initial funding will receive an
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: additional fifty thousand dollars to support more youth driven projects
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: and expand participation. So I'm under the impression that this
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: is going to be kids between the ages of fifteen
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: and twenty four can apply. They have these ideas that
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: they want to put into action, and then if a municipality,
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: local business company organization. I'm not sure they get the
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: ball rolling quickly and they're starting to see some action.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: The City of Omaha will say, you know what, here
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: we go, We'll give you an extra fifty thousand dollars
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: as a reward almost to come.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Up with ideas, right.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, in the scope of things, to
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: most of us, getting a fifty thous dollars check is
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of money. I mean, Peyton, to me and you,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars is a lot of money. But in
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the scope of things, you know, in the for instance,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty seven budget that Mayor Ewing just proposed,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: it's a one point six billion dollar budget, fifty thousand
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: dollars is a drop in the bucket. And I don't
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: know what that fifty thousand dollars is going to be
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: used for. I'd like to see exactly what it's going
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: to be used for. But the question is are we
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: really going to make an effect that is that is
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: really going to make a difference in our lives? And
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: then you go back to I mean, what liberals have
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: been talking about for some time now is our power
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and what our power sources are. And you know that's
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: when Jim Smith came on this program, who is running
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: for OPPD board, and talked about these things that some
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: of these ideas, that ideas again that some of the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: OPPD board are talking about, like decommissioning the nuclear power plant.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: And now what is happening. Guess what, folks, We don't
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: have enough power. Sounds really good, but we don't have
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: enough power. And now we're saying, why don't we have
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: enough power? We pay the you know, our power bill,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: We pay OPPD our public power, and yet we we
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: have decommissioned things before we have a replacement for it.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: We don't want coal, We want to be you know,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: we don't want things in damaging the environment.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: But we want our power. Where are we going to
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: get it?
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: And I think we've got to be careful about what
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: we are asking for. A lot of the younger students
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: will say things like this. They'll say, let's go to
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: all wind power and solar energy. Sounds really good, but
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: is it going to produce enough power for all of us?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: It won't.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: And you know, when we were talking about all these
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: many nuclear reactors that people are talking about now microreactors,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: they are saying it's going to take five to seven
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: years to even if we started on it now. And
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: they're talking about small modular reactors for our power and
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: they're saying at least ten years to construct that, and
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: a full scale power plant nuclear power plant, it's closer
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: to twenty years to plan that.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: So when you're talking about all of these things that.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I think the youth, the ideas that will come, they
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: could affect our electricity, they could affect our power and
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: are they really going to make a difference?
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: What's all your thoughts on this KFABE comment line? Okay,
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: this email comes from Will dear mayor Jean Ding. The
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: first thirty minutes of your show, there's been exactly zero
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: comments from listeners.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Ironic. Don't you think what gives?
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Will?
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Did you just turn tune in? I think we've had
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: three comments or.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Four already, three or four comments already.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I'm not sure what you're listening to, but
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: turn up the volume because yes, we are taking calls
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: as they come in, and we took one from yesterday
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: to you.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: Plenty of plenty of emails that we've gotten to already today.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: And I actually have Fred on the phone line So
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: let's get to Fred while we're at it. This is
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: the kfa B comment line. You're Alive with Jean Stauthor.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Welcome in, Fred.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Well, good morning, May, Good morning.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: How are you doing.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: How are you what's on your mind?
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: Well? I was just curious how the decision was made
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: to kick all the legs out of our power grid
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: before they had any replacements. I know that's probably not
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: your forte, but you may have some feedback. I follow
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: a lot of other history, and there's many countries that
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: already have failed with their with their windmills and their
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: and their with their their systems they put up at
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: trying to chase trying to chase a a goal of
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: zero emissions and whatever.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, and that is what you know o PPD. O
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: PPD is we're.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Unique here in Nebraska because OPPD is a public power
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: company and it is managed and governed by its elected
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: board and they are the ones that are making these decisions.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: And yes, they have a net zero emission strategy by
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: twenty fifty. And that led to the attempts to close
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the North Omaha coal units and over reliance on natural
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: gas and renewable plants, and I think we really need
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: to look at these things because they're doing it before
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: we have a solution. And you know, in twenty twenty three,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: we had a storm that fifty percent of our customers
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: were out of power, some for an extended period of time,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: some for almost a week, and you know, we had
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of mutual aid coming in. But then the
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: question comes in, are we relying to heavily on mutual
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: aid from others to restore our services when they're out?
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: And so it is the elected board. And keep in mind, folks,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: this current OPPD board have raised their own salary both
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five, and they
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: are going to have annual rate increases for those board
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: members through twenty thirty and their annual rate of increase
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: of salary increase is sixty nine percent. Now, keep all
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: this stuff in mind. These are the people that are
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: making these decisions to close these plants down before they
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: have an option that is going to allow us to
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: have reliable, affordable power and for them to be accountable
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: to us. And I think that this is something that
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: we all need to rethink and review and re examine
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: and know who we are voting for. For these Omaha
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Public Power Board members that are an elected board. You know,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I remember and talk about elected boards too, city council
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: for example. They get some compensation for it. OPPD a
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: lot of compensation if you are on a school board
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: in this state, on a school board, and keep in
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: mind in our area, the school districts are sixty two
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: percent of your property tax bill. They volunteer, they don't
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: get paid anything. So you know, these people that are
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: making all these decisions about your power and closing down
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: these plants before they have a viable solution so that
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: we have reliable power are getting paid a lot of money.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Those are eight directors and they are elected to six
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: year nonpartisan terms and it's according to gefgraphic districts. Keep
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: all of that in mind. Their annual budget at OPPD
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: is about three billion dollars. Three billion dollars. It's bigger
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: than the all fun budget for the city of Omaha.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: That's OPPD and these eight elected people are making those decisions.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Keep that in mind.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: Wow, let's put three billion with a bb Yeah, okay, let's.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Do a little update here for those of you who
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: might not be listening with the FAUCI hearing that Senator
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Ran Paul was just speaking, of course. Rand Paul is
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: a Republican Senator from Kentucky and he is the chair
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: of the State of the Homeland Security. Fauci so far
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: has invoked the Fifth Amendment one hundred and eleven times,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: including when one of the senators asked him what is
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the color of the carpet in the room? And he
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: pleaded the fifth. The only time that Fauci really can
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: came out and spoke is when he accused Senator Rand
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Paul of being obsessed with him. He must, yeah, Fauci
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: must think he is quite the movie star right here today.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: But Senator Earnest of Iowa, man, did she do a
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: good job with him? But here's a little that's just
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: an update. He's invoked the fifth and meant one hundred
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and eleven times so far.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Can we chime in here on Senator earns.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Yes, all about that, and you know that meant that that.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't have been great question for here here. I mean,
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: if he had wanted.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: To say anything he could have said about that, I
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: would imagine that would have been just fine according to
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: what he thinks he can do. Let's get into that though.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: So there's a vote next week. According to Senator r
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: and Paul on contempt having to do with doctor Pauci,
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: did you and other senators, what can you share about
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: the conversation. Did that happen before all of these one
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: hundred and eleven pleading the fifth moment or did you
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: decide that during after?
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: How did that come about?
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: Yes? And I believe that through the course of the day,
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: because of course we didn't know for certain going into
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: that hearing whether he would plead the fifth although many
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: of us thought that he would so. Through the course
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: of today's questioning, obviously he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: one hundred and eleven times, and then towards the end
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: of my questioning it as well, I asked.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: That the Chairman direct doctor.
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: Fauci to answer the questions and why he thought he
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: was covered by the Fifth Amendment, but he continued to
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: invoke the Fifth. So we will take a look at that,
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: explore those opportunities. But absolutely we should do everything we
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: can to make sure that doctor Fauci is being held
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: accountable for his misleading the American people during the COVID
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: nineteen pandemic.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: Wow I was Senator Jony Ernst of Iowa right there.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: And you know the other thing, if you're watching it
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: that doctor Fauci is doing is what anybody do in
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: public speaking is advised not to do the body language.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's looking very bored.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: He keeps on looking at his watch, and he's rolling
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: his eyes like I am much too good for all
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: of this. You all have to tune in and watch
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: just a bit of this to see what's really going on.
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: I got a good email about this comment at kfab
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: dot com with your questions, concerns, any thoughts that you
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: might have.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: This comes from Teresa Hygiene.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: Since COVID is a relevant subject today, I'd like to
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: know if you would have done anything differently if you
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: knew then what you know today. Also, do you feel
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: the Douglas County Health Director played politics at all when
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: making decisions on COVID protocols. Also, I still crack up
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: thinking of how you had to pull out that can
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: of hair color to prove people you weren't getting your
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: hair done during COVID. Yeah, that's from Teresa. Thank you.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: You know, I gotta admit to you that being a
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: nurse and having my background as being a critical care
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: nurse and understanding biology, understanding virology, understanding as much as
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I could. I think that helped me during COVID. There
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: was just so much unknown. But at the time, the
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Douglas County Health Director was doctor Audi Poor, and Audi
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I liked Audi Poor, and I don't think she played politics.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think she played politics with me at all.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: The one time I think she did is they they
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: kind of equated it to or made a similarity she
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: did about with people in poverty, like they were being
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: treated differently. And I didn't quite understand certain portions of
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: our community.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: But doctor Audie.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Poor and I did probably at least forty press conferences
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: together during COVID.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Now we talked ahead of time.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: We didn't always agree ahead of time, but before we
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: did the press conference, we wanted to be a united
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: front because we thought that last thing people needed was
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: any more confusion.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Of what was going on.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Now, what really bothered me is when the current Douglas
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: County Health Director, and that is doctor Lindsey Hughes. She
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: is the one that she'd never talked to me I
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: was mayor at the time, never ever talked to me,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: and she mandated because she had the authority to do so,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: according to her, the mass mandate in all of Douglas County.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: She never spoke to me ahead of time, and all
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: of a sudden I get an email saying the city
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: of Omaha is now under a mask mandate, which I
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: would have opposed. And so I think that was playing
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: politics right there. And you know, doctor Lindsey Hughes, she is.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: She uses the term and it is it's okay for
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: her to use the term doctor because she is, but
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: she is a PhD. I think she has led a
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: lot of people to believe she's a medical doctor.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: She is a nurse. She's a registered nurse with a PhD.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: And so she of.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Course she goes by doctor Hughes, which is a pro
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I mean she can. She can because that's a doctorate degree.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: But I do think it did mislead some people to
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: think she was a medical doctor and she is a
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: registered nurse.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: Your host, Jean Stauth, my name is Peyton Hilock. We
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: had an accusation at the start of last segment that
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: is hell again no comments during that first half an
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: hour of the show, which was false, But Will responded
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: Sincereri's apologies must have missed listeners comments while I was
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: listening to how seven out of nine of Mayor Jean's
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: political campaigns were successful.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: The truth hurts, doesn't it?
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Sorry, but yes we had comments, and yes I did
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: win seven.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: So enough of that. I'm not going to debate.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: You will if you don't like the show, guess what
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: you can do.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: But let's move on to.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: Another I got an email here from miss Sarah comment
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: at kfab dot com. Hello, what is your opinion about
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: teachers having to take a pay cut due to the
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: extra money that OPS has to come up with. I
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: think it's crazy that the heart of our public schools
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: is taking the fall for something that is not their fault.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Sarah, true, they are not well. First of all, I
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: would think that I would be totally opposed to any
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: teacher taking any pay cut. Having said that, they are
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: not taking a pay cut to my knowledge, they you
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: know you are. They are under contract. Teachers will say,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: we are not in a union, but they're every bit
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: of a union.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Excuse me.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: And their contract is negotiated and approved in public by
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the school board, so you are contractually obligated to fulfill
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: that contract. I don't have the contract in front of me,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: but they cannot reduce their salary. What I know, my
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: knowledge is is with ops, because of the issues they
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: are having this year, that they are reducing their increase.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: So they were due to get I believe a three
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: percent increase and they are reducing that to a one
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: and a half I believe is what I read increase.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: So they are reducing their increase, they are not reducing
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: their salary. And you know, with the teachers again, you know,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I think teachers have one of the toughest jobs in
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: the world, especially during COVID they did. But they will
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: say we are not in a union, but they are
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: every bit of a union. The you know, the NSA,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: which is the Nebraska State Education Association, they are indoors
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: political candidates. They should stay neutral. A lot of these
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: teachers that put their money, their dues into this don't
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: agree with the positions that they are taking. I'm going
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: to give you a local example, and here I'm going
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: to talk about something that happened to me. But in
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, I was running against Heath Mellow, who I
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: love Heath Mellow, He's a good friend of mine. But
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: at that time, the OEA, which is the Omaha Education Association,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: which is the OPS teachers for the first time ever.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: And I don't think they have sense.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: They supported Heath Mellow and they wanted him to get elected,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: so they said that they were going to endorse candidates.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Listen to this little game I played with them, and
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: they said if I wanted to be considered the first
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: time ever, And I'm thinking, why are they getting involved
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: in the mayor's race in Omaha the OEA, But they said,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: if you want to be interviewed Gene Stothard, then you
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: can come to our office. And it was something like
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: seven am on a Saturday morning, and the minute I
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: got there, they started saying, well, what do you feel
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: about LB seven seven four? And what do you feel
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: about LB one two three? And what do you feel
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: about LV ninete? And I'm like, you know, there's eight
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: hundred bills dropped this year. I don't know all those numbers. Well,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Heath Mellow does well, of course he does. He was
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: in the legislature for the last eight years. I left
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: that interview and by the time I got home they
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: called and said we're endorsing Heath Mellow, And I thought,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: what a waste of my time? That was, But it's
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: a little game they play. But I don't know why
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: they get involved, because there were a lot of teachers
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: that didn't feel like they supported one candidate or another.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: So teachers, you know, you do a great job, but
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: really I think, you know, stay out of political campaigns.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: There's really there's really no reason to get in there
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: and start endorsing candidates because you think you are endorsing
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  Speaker 1: the union friendly candidate. And yet you're saying, but we're
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  Speaker 1: not in a union, Yeah you are. They want to
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  Speaker 1: preserve their bark rights. That's basically what it is. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, tomorrow, by the way, we have Chris Carson
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  Speaker 1: coming on. This is going to be fun. Chris Carson
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  Speaker 1: is the captain of the Teamsters Local five five four
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  Speaker 1: workers union. There's about forty seven workers on strike now
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  Speaker 1: with the Premiere Midwest Beream Beverage company over there a
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: contract negotiation, speaking of contract negotiations and bargaining rights, and
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: he is coming on the show and we are going
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: to talk. I always found the Teamsters to be very reasonable,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: but he's going to talk about this this strike, and
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about unions and union involvement too.
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  Speaker 1: In political campaigns. So Chris Carson will be on tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's bringing a few of the teamsters with him,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: and so that.
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  Speaker 2: Ought to be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, I always found the teamsters to be
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: very reasonable to work with. And we'll see what Chris
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: has got on his mind and in the group tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: This is the KFAB Comment Line with your host Jeene Stouthard.
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  Speaker 5: All of these episodes live on the radio are uploaded
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  Speaker 5: removed and it makes for a very very nice listen.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: We got about a minute left here, Gene, and I'm
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: just thinking about all these things going on, you know,
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: the COVID files and Fauci diaries coming out today. It's
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: very interesting and I wonder how much more we're gonna
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: hear about this as things continue to develop, because man,
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: oh man, even in the moment during COVID, there was
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: so many people, Oh my goodness, if I go outside,
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: I might not come back home. Also people saying, well,
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: what is this? What is this hoax?
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  Speaker 1: You know, and I'm gonna give you one more example.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Right during COVID, I was I wanted to go to
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: home depot. I'm standing in line, you know. I was
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: out on the sidewalk and they were all partitioned off.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: There was a family in front of me, a family
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: in back of me. We all got our mask on
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: because it was mandated by doctor Hughes.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Six feet apart of course, yep. And the family in
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: front said, are you the mayor?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, thank you so much for all you are doing
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  Speaker 1: for COVID to help protect us. The guy behind me said,
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  Speaker 1: are you the mayor?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was going to beat me up. He
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: was screaming and yelling at me and telling me that
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I was a Nazi and I was taking away their rights.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: So everybody had a different opinion during COVID. And boy
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: are we going to hear a lot after the Fauci
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: investigation and hearing and everything that's going on.
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  Speaker 2: But that is it for us today. Thank you all
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  Speaker 2: for listening.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you are enjoying the show and you join
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  Speaker 1: us again tomorrow. I am Jeane Stothart and this is
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