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Lucy Chapman on Roads and Conspiracy Theories · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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  Speaker 1: The wonderful Lucy Chapman filling in today for Jean Stothert.
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  Speaker 1: And she has a guest of her own that I
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  Speaker 1: will let her introduce. But we want to hear from
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  Speaker 1: you today. 402-558-1110. Comment at kfab.com. Good morning, Lucy.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Peyton.
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  Speaker 3: I hope I can live up to this girl is
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  Speaker 3: on fire. I love Alicia Keys. When she first played that,
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  Speaker 3: when she first started playing, That is, she's.
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  Speaker 2: Got good taste.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a perfect song for Gene Stother, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it works for you today, too. All right.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, Lucy, before you get started,
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  Speaker 1: I already have a caller for you, so let's take
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  Speaker 1: that real quick. All right. And then you can get
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  Speaker 1: into it.
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  Speaker 4: 402-558-1110.
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  Speaker 1: Mark, you are now live with Lucy Chapman.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Lucy. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 5: I got to tell you, when you're gone, we miss you.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody misses you when you're not here to harass God.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if this is how the calls are going to
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  Speaker 3: go all day, hey, I'm golden. This is going to
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  Speaker 3: be great, Mark. I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 5: The main reason I called is I've got to tell you,
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  Speaker 5: you have the absolute best laugh in radio. I love
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  Speaker 5: hearing your laugh. It just makes my day.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's so funny because you don't like anything
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  Speaker 3: about yourself, right? Everybody else is like, I do not
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  Speaker 3: like my laugh at all. When I'm editing stuff, I
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  Speaker 3: will take any laughs out.
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  Speaker 2: I hate it.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: I'll leave this one in.
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  Speaker 6: Sounds great.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks, Mark.
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  Speaker 5: You're doing a great job. You're awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much for the call.
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  Speaker 5: You too, Peg.
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  Speaker 7: Bye.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's the way to get a show started.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to get it started.
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  Speaker 3: I've got a special guest in studio with me today,
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  Speaker 3: Austin Rauser.
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  Speaker 2: He is the city engineer. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 2: joining me today.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning. Thanks for having me here. It's a pleasure
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  Speaker 8: to be here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I can't take all the credit for the
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  Speaker 3: subject today because I was kind of wavering on whether
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to do this or not. And Peyton and
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  Speaker 3: Gene and I, we got together and we said, why
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  Speaker 3: don't you talk about traffic and construction?
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  Speaker 2: I said, that's perfect. So who would I call but
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  Speaker 2: Austin Rouser?
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  Speaker 8: Two of my favorite topics.
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  Speaker 2: I bet they are.
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  Speaker 3: So let's, you know, I get the question I get
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  Speaker 3: the most is how long is something going to go on?
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  Speaker 3: Or I'll get a call on the traffic tip line
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  Speaker 3: 551 CARS. I'll get a call from somebody that's stuck
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  Speaker 3: in traffic and I'm trying to get that information out
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  Speaker 3: as fast as I can, but boy, it changes so fast.
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  Speaker 2: And you've seen it.
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  Speaker 3: Dodge Expressway can be moving along with no delays and
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  Speaker 3: literally three, four minutes later, nobody's moving.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the traffic patterns in Omaha.
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  Speaker 3: How does that happen though when you have literally like
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  Speaker 3: breaks of five, 10, 15 minutes, and then all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden it's back. Is it just people leaving that time?
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  Speaker 3: And here's what I want to know from you. I
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  Speaker 3: have said now for a while, Wednesday is the worst
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  Speaker 3: day in traffic. Would you have any comment about that?
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  Speaker 9: I really don't know. It seems to me like the
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  Speaker 9: middle of the week, there's probably more people at work.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, people take Friday and Mondays off to get
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  Speaker 9: three-day weekends. But frankly, I'm just speculating on that. It
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  Speaker 9: seems like probably the day when most people are actually
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  Speaker 9: at work and moving about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's what I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think from the pandemic and people were working from
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  Speaker 3: home and slowly as people had to go back to
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  Speaker 3: the office, but they didn't have to go all five days.
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  Speaker 3: You're not going to take Monday or Tuesday off. You're
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  Speaker 3: not going to take Thursday or Friday off. The one
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  Speaker 3: day that everybody is back in the office would be Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, off topic.
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  Speaker 8: So you're looking forward to the weekend already.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking about calling in sick tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: So just so Scott knows that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that won't be a big surprise.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk about a couple of things aside from the
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  Speaker 3: Dodge Expressway because it's pretty good right now. Can you
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  Speaker 3: tell me anything about 108th and L?
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  Speaker 1: I don't have any specifics on that.
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  Speaker 9: Do know there's a closure there, but I unfortunately don't
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  Speaker 9: have specifics on that.
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  Speaker 3: Can you tell me why it feels like so many
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  Speaker 3: projects are started? and then we don't see a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people at them. I know there's a good reason.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, construction's very complicated.
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  Speaker 9: I guess one thing I would start by highlighting is,
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  Speaker 9: you know, with it, you asked me about 108th and Allen.
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  Speaker 9: I don't have a lot of details on it. There's
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  Speaker 9: so many people doing work in the city. There's a
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  Speaker 9: lot going on as far as just the growth of
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  Speaker 9: the city. You know, we have a lot of things
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  Speaker 9: to maintain, and there's a lot of different groups that
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  Speaker 9: do maintenance. We have, obviously, I have a Long history
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  Speaker 9: with street maintenance. I was a street maintenance engineer for
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  Speaker 9: 10 years. So there's always street maintenance work that's going on.
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  Speaker 9: There's sewer maintenance work that goes on. The traffic maintenance
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  Speaker 9: group has work that goes on. We have utilities. We
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  Speaker 9: have OPPD. Then we have the Metropolitan Utilities District. There's
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  Speaker 9: all the communications utilities.
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  Speaker 8: That are out there. We get downtown. We have steam lines.
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  Speaker 8: So there's so many things going on.
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  Speaker 9: And then we have private developments and building renovations and
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  Speaker 9: all kinds of things that happen. That really, you know,
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  Speaker 9: as far as impacts to traffic, there's a number of
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  Speaker 9: different things. And at any given time, there's a huge
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  Speaker 9: list of closures that go on. One thing that the
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  Speaker 9: city does provide through our traffic engineering group is we
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  Speaker 9: do have a website that people can go to.
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  Speaker 8: I never remember the website.
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  Speaker 9: I personally always have to Google it if you Google
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  Speaker 9: traffic restrictions Omaha. It will bring you to a public
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  Speaker 9: works page. There's a map on there. It will show
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  Speaker 9: you where those closures are at. You can click on
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  Speaker 9: an individual closure. It pulls up information about it. Frankly,
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  Speaker 9: I use this all the time myself.
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  Speaker 2: I actually do too.
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  Speaker 8: I get questions like this.
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  Speaker 10: Right.
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  Speaker 8: I pull that resource up.
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  Speaker 9: It tells you who's got the closure there, what the
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  Speaker 9: anticipated timeline is for that closure, and who you can
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  Speaker 9: contact for more information about it. So there is a
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  Speaker 9: great resource out there that is very valuable, very helpful
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  Speaker 9: for anybody that wants that kind of information, just about
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  Speaker 9: what's going on with closures in their area. And I
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  Speaker 9: will say construction is a very complicated thing. It involves
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  Speaker 9: a lot of people. You've got a contractor, you've got,
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  Speaker 9: sometimes they have multiple subcontractors, you've got weather, you've got
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  Speaker 9: all these things that play a huge factor into what
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  Speaker 9: happens with construction. And there's a lot of moving parts
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  Speaker 9: in any kind of construction, even something that seems like
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  Speaker 9: a very simple construction is going to have a whole
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  Speaker 9: lot of moving parts. And so things go wrong all
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  Speaker 9: the time. You're dealing with underground things. Sometimes when you dig,
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  Speaker 9: you find stuff you didn't know or think would be there.
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  Speaker 9: And that gets very challenging. The weather, again, plays a
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  Speaker 9: huge factor into what's going on with construction. And so
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  Speaker 9: things don't always follow the exact timeline of what we anticipate.
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  Speaker 9: We know about how long it should take to get
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  Speaker 9: a certain scope of work finished when it comes to construction.
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  Speaker 9: But there's always something that comes up. You know, rarely
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  Speaker 9: do you ever see a construction project where there isn't
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  Speaker 9: some unknown, some issue that arises during the project that
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  Speaker 9: really kind of throws a wrench in it. We have
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  Speaker 9: to work for solutions on that. So we have a
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  Speaker 9: lot of people that are really skilled at coming to
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  Speaker 9: those solutions and working with other people. We have good
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  Speaker 9: relationships where we can come to solutions on that. So
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  Speaker 9: It's a complicated machine. I think there are things that
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  Speaker 9: happen on construction sites that I think the average person
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  Speaker 9: would be very surprised at that that happens, and those
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  Speaker 9: things go on, but certainly very complicated.
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  Speaker 3: Can you tell us any of those things that a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people would be surprised to hear?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, my gosh. I mean, it's things from— you get fights.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, there's actual— It's happened on construction sites and
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  Speaker 9: you get just all kinds of crazy things that happen.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, fights?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Not with people who are mad because you're there. No,
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  Speaker 2: that can't happen.
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  Speaker 9: No, I've never seen contractors do that. Contractors are great.
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  Speaker 9: We're really happy and proud of our contracting community here.
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  Speaker 9: We have a great resource. But it's built with people, right?
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  Speaker 9: So anybody, any job site, you're going to have conflict.
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  Speaker 9: There's things that happen and things that go wrong. Um, so, uh, just,
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  Speaker 9: just all kinds of things that happen, interactions with, with
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  Speaker 9: property owners, with drivers, those kinds of things happen. I,
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  Speaker 9: you know, recently saw, uh, personally witnessed an incident where
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  Speaker 9: a construction worker was behaving badly and actually hit a
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  Speaker 9: car with a stop paddle. And that's not, that's not, uh,
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  Speaker 9: something we want to see happen, but we were dealing
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  Speaker 9: with people, right?
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  Speaker 1: And so, right.
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  Speaker 2: That has to be frustrating.
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  Speaker 8: It's, it's, there's, there's a lot of things that happen.
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  Speaker 2: When you are working, uh, and.
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  Speaker 3: When people are driving through these construction areas and I
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  Speaker 3: know that as somebody myself who drives through some of
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  Speaker 3: these construction areas and I'm thinking, okay, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 3: follow all of the rules and, and you, and it's
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  Speaker 3: just kind of all underwood is something that's really a
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  Speaker 3: mess right now with the elevated manholes. Is there a
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  Speaker 3: priority put on to projects like that where the streets
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  Speaker 3: are so.
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  Speaker 2: Torn up for this project.
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  Speaker 3: And I know you guys would probably like to close
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  Speaker 3: them all together to get the project done quicker. But
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  Speaker 3: how is it, can we call and say, hey, my
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  Speaker 3: car's been damaged by this elevated manhole, even though there
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  Speaker 3: is signage already there?
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 9: We try to address all the hazards, even in those cases,
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  Speaker 9: any elevated manhole. Obviously, we're not going to finish it
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  Speaker 9: that way, but we want to give some kind of
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  Speaker 9: a feathered edge around that manhole that's what we call
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  Speaker 9: it or some kind of a soft transition to it
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  Speaker 9: we don't want to leave a harsh lip there that
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  Speaker 9: you're going to hit that manhole so and these are
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  Speaker 9: things again that kind of slow construction down but we
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  Speaker 9: want to make sure we address the hazards so we'll
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  Speaker 9: they'll put some asphalt around the edge of that that
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  Speaker 9: raised manhole temporarily just while traffic is on it so
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  Speaker 9: that we're not creating a sharp lip that's going to
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  Speaker 9: damage a tire or a wheel or something like that
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  Speaker 9: but Yeah, again, just a lot of moving pieces on that.
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  Speaker 9: That all has to be taken back out again before
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  Speaker 9: we go back with the final asphalt.
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  Speaker 2: So that extends the project time as well.
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  Speaker 8: It does. It adds time to it.
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  Speaker 2: But that's built in, that time. Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, it's built in.
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  Speaker 9: And I would say one general comment that I would
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  Speaker 9: like to make that's kind of along that note. we
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  Speaker 9: hear a lot of times from people that say, well,
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  Speaker 9: I don't see any work happening.
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  Speaker 8: In this construction zone. What's going on?
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  Speaker 9: I mean, generally, a construction zone is set up for
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  Speaker 9: two reasons. It's for the safety of the driver, but
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  Speaker 9: it's also for the safety of the worker. And so
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  Speaker 9: anytime there's traffic cones that are up that are keeping
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  Speaker 9: you away from a certain area, it generally means there's
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  Speaker 9: either some kind of a hazard there to the driver,
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  Speaker 9: or there's someone there that needs protection. And so even
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  Speaker 9: if we don't always see someone, there might be a
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  Speaker 9: hazard there that we don't know about. And sometimes that
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  Speaker 9: hazard could really just be if we suspect a pavement
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  Speaker 9: could fail. And that's even on new pavement because it
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  Speaker 9: has to have time to what we call cure. It
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  Speaker 9: has to strengthen itself to a certain degree before we
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  Speaker 9: can allow traffic back on that. So oftentimes we'll see
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  Speaker 9: construction zones that are set up on new concrete that's fresh,
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  Speaker 9: that's really not ready for traffic yet. We're trying to
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  Speaker 9: protect the longevity of the investment we've made in that pavement.
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  Speaker 9: And so we'll keep that closed for a few days
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  Speaker 9: afterwards just to make sure that it has time to
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  Speaker 9: really strengthen to a point where it can support the
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  Speaker 9: load of traffic. And so that's oftentimes what we'll see
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  Speaker 9: when people say, hey, no work's been done on this
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  Speaker 9: in a couple of days.
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  Speaker 8: Why is it still closed?
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  Speaker 9: Usually there's either the presence of some kind of hazard
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  Speaker 9: or there's something we're trying to protect there.
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  Speaker 3: Now, see, when I'm driving through and I see concrete
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  Speaker 3: that looks perfectly fine, but there's yellow tape around it,
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  Speaker 3: my first thought is, wow, they finished that fast.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't see it as, why is that still
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  Speaker 2: roped off?
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  Speaker 3: They finished that up fast. So another question that I
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  Speaker 3: had for you is signage.
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  Speaker 2: Is the city.
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  Speaker 3: responsible for signage or who takes care of that? And
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  Speaker 3: I'm specifically thinking about the Pershing Drive closure because I
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  Speaker 3: saw somebody again turning around on a U-turn at Pershing
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  Speaker 3: coming off of 680. And I'm thinking, is the signage
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  Speaker 3: not there? Is it not visible? Who takes care of that?
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  Speaker 9: All signage is, there's a federal manual called the Manual
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  Speaker 9: of Uniform Traffic Control Devices. And all signage, whether it's
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  Speaker 9: either permanent traffic control, such as your stop signs, your
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  Speaker 9: street signs, those kinds of things, or even work zone
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  Speaker 9: signs that are going to be the orange signs that
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  Speaker 9: tell you that there's some kind of a caution message
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  Speaker 9: behind them, they're all mandated by the Federal Manual of
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  Speaker 9: Uniform Traffic Control Devices. So those setups, they're very detailed
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  Speaker 9: as far as even the spacing that goes into it.
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  Speaker 9: Like people will say, How come if the work is here,
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  Speaker 9: why is this lane closed 500 feet back? And usually
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  Speaker 9: it has to do with the setup that's controlled by
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  Speaker 9: that document that says we have to have so much
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  Speaker 9: warning space, so much taper space to change the lanes
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  Speaker 9: based on the speeds, the traffic volumes. All those things
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  Speaker 9: come into play with how those work zones are set up.
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  Speaker 9: And so you get into specific instances where you mentioned
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  Speaker 9: Pershing Drive, which is a very interesting case because that's
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  Speaker 9: actually– It functions as a city street.
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  Speaker 8: The city doesn't own the right-of-way there.
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  Speaker 9: That whole area is owned by the Metropolitan Utilities District.
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  Speaker 8: And that road sits on a bluff.
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  Speaker 9: And so there's a potential hazard there with some of
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  Speaker 9: the stability of the bluff if there were a large
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  Speaker 9: water leak or something that we could cause a pretty
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  Speaker 9: significant hazard. So out of an abundance of caution– The
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  Speaker 9: Metropolitan Utilities District came to us and coordinated very well
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  Speaker 9: and said, hey, you know, we're probably going to have
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  Speaker 9: to close this road while we do some extra work
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  Speaker 9: and some extra investigations. So that's kind of a different
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  Speaker 9: case from what we normally see.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 8: But certainly has some detail around it.
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  Speaker 3: That is great to know. I was not aware of that.
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  Speaker 3: I wondered why they were closing that for so long.
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  Speaker 3: Lucy Chapman here filling in for Jean Stothert on the
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  Speaker 3: KFAB comment line on NewsRadio 1110 KFAB. She's going to
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  Speaker 3: be back on Monday. We're going to take a quick break,
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  Speaker 3: and Peyton, take us there.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we are going to take a quick break. Lucy,
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  Speaker 1: we have a few minutes left. I do have a
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  Speaker 1: question as well for you, and this comes from an email, Craig,
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  Speaker 1: common at kfab.com. If you have any questions or concerns,
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  Speaker 1: you can also give us a call, 402-558-1110. Craig says,
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  Speaker 1: why is there no road construction at night, especially intersections
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  Speaker 1: like 72nd and L?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, there is on the interstate.
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  Speaker 1: The general question about construction at night?
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  Speaker 9: We do construction at night within the city of Omaha.
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  Speaker 9: For instance, you mentioned Underwood, that's a resurfacing project. Resurfacing
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  Speaker 9: projects will have night work. Generally within an urban setting,
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  Speaker 9: part of night work is people live there.
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  Speaker 8: People are sleeping. Most people sleep at night.
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  Speaker 9: And so we want to make sure that we don't
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  Speaker 9: distract them or interrupt their sleep. So there's not a
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  Speaker 9: lot of night work that goes on, but we will
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  Speaker 9: do night work in areas where it's all commercial, all industrial,
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  Speaker 9: very little residential. So we do some night work, but
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  Speaker 9: the majority of our work is in the daytime.
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  Speaker 1: It's very interesting because I've seen construction at nighttime, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: at Omaha or other metropolitan cities, and it's usually on
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  Speaker 1: interstates highways and they close it down and they give
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  Speaker 1: it to one lane. But the noise, I think, is
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  Speaker 1: a really significant part of it because, oh, we should
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  Speaker 1: do more night construction to get the roads done faster.
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  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden it's outside your neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: and you're not able to sleep because of the noise.
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  Speaker 1: It's not so sweet anymore, you know?
• 15:13
  Speaker 8: That's right.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: So the 72nd and L.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: 72nd and L is an area where nobody's driving in it,
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: and yet everybody's driving in it because they're trying to
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: get through it. Is that a city project or is
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: that a– because I know L Street is actually 275.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: So is that a state or a city project?
• 15:35
  Speaker 9: That particular project is currently led by the Nebraska Department
• 15:38
  Speaker 9: of Transportation.
• 15:39
  Speaker 8: And that was the bridge that was there they owned.
• 15:42
  Speaker 9: And so there was a lot of coordination and design
• 15:45
  Speaker 9: work around what to do with that.
• 15:46
  Speaker 8: So, yes, that's a state project.
• 15:49
  Speaker 9: Currently, the city is participating in some ways with that project, helping, commenting,
• 15:54
  Speaker 9: those kinds of things. But the state is the lead
• 15:56
  Speaker 9: agency on that particular project. Should be a good project
• 16:00
  Speaker 9: for the area. I personally live in Ralston, so I
• 16:03
  Speaker 9: experience that on a daily basis.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Once that's done, though, that's going to be beautiful.
• 16:09
  Speaker 8: Yes, yes.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Did you have a chance to see when they were
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: taking the bridge down? I don't know if NDOT put
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: up a temporary camera or why it was there, but
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: there was a temporary camera.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: It must have been because it's gone now.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: But there was a temporary camera, and it looked like
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: these giant– Bugs.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Praying mantis.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: They looked like praying mantis just eating that bridge. It
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: was the most fascinating thing. How come we don't get
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: to see some of that stuff? Why wouldn't they put
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: that out to the media and say, here's some great video?
• 16:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a good question.
• 16:42
  Speaker 9: I mean, when we took the bridges down, Hardy and
• 16:45
  Speaker 9: Farnham over I-480, I know there was one local news
• 16:49
  Speaker 9: agency that put together some really, really fascinating time-lapse footage
• 16:52
  Speaker 9: of that that was really excellent.
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: That was done at night as well, by the way.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that stuff. I want to see that stuff.
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely.
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: And that's one of the things that we have a
• 17:03
  Speaker 9: great communications team on our staff, and they work towards
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: coming up with ideas like that. So that kind of feedback,
• 17:09
  Speaker 9: things people want to see, we're working more to get
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: some of that out on social media.
• 17:13
  Speaker 8: Did you hear.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: That, Peyton?
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: It's all because of me. We're going to get some
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: great video.
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: But we've had support from Mayor Ewing and his staff
• 17:22
  Speaker 9: to start getting more of that information out. People want
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: to see that, and it helps tell the story of
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: what's happening because there is a lot going on behind
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: the scenes.
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: Excellent.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: And speaking of something that might be good to give
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: out to the public of information, I have a phone
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: call here from Kevin, 402-558-1110. Kevin, thanks for the call.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: You are now live with Lucy Chapman here on the
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: KFAB comment line.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Hi, Kevin.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Hello.
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: Hey, I've got a question for Austin Rauser. Is there
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: any way, in conjunction maybe with the state of Nebraska
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: and the other suburban areas around Omaha, that they can
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: put out a PSA, a public service announcement to teach
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: people how to zipper merge? In construction areas, because believe me,
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: I drive an awful lot in the city of Omaha,
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: and only about three people in this whole city know
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: how to do a zipper merge. And when you do it,
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: you usually get a real unfriendly wave.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: That is a great question.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: So maybe people knew it was acceptable. Maybe they would figure.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Out how to do it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: Well, Kevin, thanks for bringing the controversial topic of the
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: day up. It is? I actually have a lot of
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: conversations with my staff about this.
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: So a zipper merge, I mentioned the manual uniform traffic
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: control devices earlier. A zipper merge is a very specific
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: strategy that has to be set up with the work zone.
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: And typically a true zipper merge is something that you
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: would see on a lot of interstate, high-speed, highway-type jobs.
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: where there is a specific point where they want you
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: to merge at. I believe the work that was just
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: done on 75 and Bellevue had a true zipper merge
• 19:06
  Speaker 9: to it, where the signage read, stay in your lane
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: until the merge point, and then it defines where the
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: merge point is. The point being, when you do a
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: true zipper merge, you're wanting people to merge while they're
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: still moving forward. We don't want people to cut into
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: stopped traffic and try to cut into it. And so
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: I think a lot of people think that where there's
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: a non-zipper merge situation that people should be zipper merging.
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: So if a work zone isn't.
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: Truly set up to be a true zipper merge work zone,
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: zipper merging isn't always the greatest way to go about that.
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: So with a.
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: True zipper merge, and zipper merge works great when it's
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: set up for it, but you really want to have
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: that traffic still moving forward. If we get to a
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: point to where that queue has stopped, then it's... it
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: really congests things worse when people try to jump the
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: queue and cut in in front of the line.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: That's incredible. You know, the zipper merge is so amazing,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: but I know what you're talking about, too. You get
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: it backed up, and then you have those knuckleheads who
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: straddle the line until you get to the merge point
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: so people don't. cut everybody else and then jump in.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: But like you said, if everybody can just merge right
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: at the same time, it makes a lot more sense.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: 1027 here on News Radio 1110 KFAB. Lucy Chapman filling
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: in for Gene Stothert this morning on the KFAB comment line.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Austin Rauser, the city engineer for the city of Omaha.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us today. We appreciate it.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Any of your questions, comments, or concerns to finish off
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the KFAB comment line are more than welcome. 402-558-1110 or
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: comment at kfab.com. Lucy Chapman and the KFAB Comment Line
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: returns next.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Lucy Chapman here, filling in for Jean Stothert. Welcome back
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: to the KFAB Comment Line on NewsRadio 1110 KFAB.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: She's going to be back on Monday, right, Peyton?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, going to be back on Monday. We're also very happy. Yes,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: very happy to have Jean returning on Monday. A great
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: slate of hosts this week filling in for Jean Stothert.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: We had Chip Maxwell on Monday. And we had State
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Senator Kathleen Kauth and Gretna Mayor Mike Evans yesterday, the
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: wonderful Lucy Chapman today. We have Gary Saddlemyer filling in tomorrow.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And then we're still working in who we're going to
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: have on Friday. It's between 1 and 2 right now.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: We'll confirm that when we get that to you. If
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: you missed any episodes or you missed the earlier segment today,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: you can always find something that podcasts uploaded to kfab.com,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the podcast page, or on the free iHeartRadio app, where
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: you can also send us a talk back. I have
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: a few of them already today, and I would love
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: to hear your comments there, a quick 30-second message. You
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: can also reach out to us, 402-558-1110, or comment at kfab.com.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I thought that was a nice interview there. with Austin Rouser.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: He brought some good perspective to the show.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: He gave us some great information, and you and I
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: were talking about that Pershing Drive. That is such a
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: long stretch of Pershing Drive, and it's such a... a
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: frequently used route to Epley and it's going to be
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: closed for a year. That's an MUD project. And I
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: had no idea about that. Austin told us it's kind of,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: it's kind of built on a bluff. So they're doing some,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: some testing and doing some more reworking of that road.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: So that's why that's going to be closed for a
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: long time. You said Gary Saddlemeyer's here on Thursday. I'm
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: not quite sure. You know, he's, he's just, he's young.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: He's good. He's, I don't know how he's going to
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: do with the experience he's got.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I might have to help him out a little bit.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: You might have to help him.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I just don't know if he's going to be able
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: to handle it. We'll see.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: He's just a young kid, you know.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Just a young chicken right there. I did get an
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: email since we've been back. It was a question for
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Austin about manhole covers, Austin Rouser, who was just on
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the show. And I think he kind of answered this already.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Why are so many manhole covers recessed? In the manhole frame,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: causing a rough ride and potential tire damage. And they
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: gave a few examples about the manhole covers.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I would think, honestly, and Austin had to go. He
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: had another meeting.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: But I would think that over time, they would all
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: eventually be a little bit recessed just because the weight
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: of all of the traffic.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: But I'm just guessing. I don't know.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: But we'll get him back on again sometime soon, and
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: we'll definitely make sure that he gets that question.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I got a phone call here from Chris. We're
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: going to get to him, 402-558-1110. And I think this
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: is right up your alley, Lucy.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Chris. Thanks for the call. You're live
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: with Lucy Chapman on KFAB.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Hey, Chris.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Hello, Lucy Chapman.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Hello.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: I know you're a conspiracy nut, so I got a
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: conspiracy that I would like to know if you've heard
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: about the plot cameras.
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: Oh, boy.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: Yep, that's back.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: What do you got?
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: Word around the old water cooler is that the plot
• 23:55
  Speaker 10: cameras are all being put up all over our nation
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: because when the elites finally shut off our grid, our
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: power and everything else, it's going to be pretty much
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: their violent and vicious version of Netflix. So all the
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: rich people sit there and watch the black cameras and
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: watch us just purge ourselves.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: You mean like the movie Purge?
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because we won't have any electricity and they'll be
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: in bunkers and safe. And they're just going to watch
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: us on TV through the plot cameras, just rape and
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: burn and pillage for however long until they decide to
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: go ahead and put it back on.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Well, Chris, I can say one thing for sure that
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I have said for a long time that Hollywood always
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: shows you what's coming. And it may not be obvious
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: and it isn't always obvious. I'm thinking of the movie
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: with Mel Gibson, Conspiracy Theory, how he was an absolute
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: crazy guy. And look at him now. He would be
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: considered one of the mainstream at this point. Or for
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Flock and Purge, I don't know.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Here's what I know.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of bunkers being built. And you can
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: find that out when you watch YouTube. I watch a
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: lot of YouTube, as it sounds like you do also.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: And the Flock cameras, the information that I have been
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: seeing on them... Yes, they are a tool. They are
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: a great tool to combat crime, specifically with kidnapping and
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: things like that and being able to stop runaway cars
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: or stolen cars. It's a great tool, but I've also
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: seen a lot of video that shows somebody being targeted
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: by that and sometimes from official sources.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Official entities. We'll just go with that. So I'm kind
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: of on the.
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah, sheriffs.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: I've seen the same thing.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Well, your words, not mine. I will say that.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: But I'm kind of on the fence with Flock because
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: I don't like surveillance. I don't like the First Amendment
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: being fought against or validated or attacked.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Attacked.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: But I don't know where this is going. I do
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: know that we will all get answers at some point.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: We're all going to get some answers about everything that's
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: going on. And we have to stand together when it
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: comes to our First Amendment and Second Amendment rights. We've
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: got to stand together. Whether you don't want to own
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: a gun, you don't have to. But you can't let
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: that right go away any more than you can let
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: the right go away of our free speech. And with
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Trump kicking out the— the big major stations, the big
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: news stations. I don't think he's violating the First Amendment,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: but I will hold out an opinion on that until
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: we see more coming out about that.
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: Well, that sounds good to me.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: I appreciate your questions, Chris, and I appreciate your call.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Okay, well, you have a good day.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: Thanks.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: We'll see you in the concentration camp.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, no! You got that last part.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: You got the last word in, Chris. Okay, okay. I
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: do have a— I think he disagreed with me.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit. I enjoy conspiracy theories, whether I
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: believe in said conspiracy theory or not. But I think
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: it's just very interesting to— read them, see them, what
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: people are talking about, because there are definitely some unhinged
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: conspiracy theories. I'm like, no way, no way. But then
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: some of them, like, well, it could be onto something there.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Right, and I will tell you this.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: People that have listened to me for a while, they'll
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: all say, oh, I believe in aliens, and there was
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: a time when I did. But with all the video
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: coming out, the UFOs, what do they call them, the unidentified,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: what's the new.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: term for them. I'm blanking on it.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Unidentified flying object.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: They call them something else. Anyway, with all of the
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: information that they've released about that, I've completely, completely changed
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: my mind. I do not believe that there are aliens
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: and I do not believe there are forces on other planets.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: That's a complete turnaround.
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: That is.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I have a call again from Chuck. Thank you for
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the call, Chuck.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: 402-558-1110.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: You are live with Lucy Chapman here on the KFAB
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: comment line.
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, thank you. I was listening to Scott Borges just
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: before you guys were on.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: All the good things that Trump has done. And I
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: just kind of wondered, you know, at KFAB, do you
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: get talking points that you're supposed to address? Just because
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: that's kind of what your station is about.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: I wish I did because I don't get any.
• 28:57
  Speaker 11: Does he really believe the stuff that he's saying or
• 29:03
  Speaker 11: is he just following talking points that they're supposed to
• 29:07
  Speaker 11: promote on the station?
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: That's kind of what I was wondering.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Well, you'd have to ask him directly if that was
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: the case, but I can tell you we don't get
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: talking points. We are individuals with our own brains and
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: we come up with our own ideas and our own
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: opinions and we are not held accountable if they are
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: against this person or that person.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: We're free agents.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: We can talk about what we want as long as
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: it falls within the grounds of the FCC rules, which
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: would be indecency or cursing or whatever. We have our
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: own opinions and nobody tells us what we can and
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: cannot say. And I think you already know that. I
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: think you knew that before you called.
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: What I was wondering, so do you have a certain
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: demographic that you're supposed to be talking to?
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Nope.
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: And the network wants you to do that for ratings?
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: Nope.
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: That's not part of what you do?
• 30:00
  Speaker 10: Nope.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: We want everybody to listen from 12 to 14. 74
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: or younger if they want. We want everybody to listen.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: We want to hear everybody's opinion. That's why we have talkback.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: That's why we have comment lines so that you can
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: call and ask us questions like this. We want to
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: engage the entire community. We want to hear everybody's opinion.
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: That's great. I'm glad to hear that.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: I appreciate your call very much. Have a fantastic day.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, Chuck. And I think that's
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: a fair question.
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: It might make the job a little bit easier if
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: you get handed a packet of notes. Here's your show prep.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: I would love that. Why didn't somebody give me that today?
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Am I missing something? Did Scott get a packet? I
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: don't think so, but that's his question to answer. I
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: got an email about flock cameras. Everybody complaining about flock
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: cameras and privacy are doing so on a device that
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: records every phone number dialed or received, every conversation, every
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: text message sent, and every keystroke made. And I understand
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: that to a certain degree.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: I believe that is true.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: And that's one of the reasons why the flock cameras are,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: I'm against them. I think they can do good, just
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: like everything else that I'm against. They can all do good.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: But generally speaking, they're not going to. They can do good,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: but all of that information is already out there. Every
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: time you pick up a smartphone, every single time you
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Send a text or you make a phone call. We
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: used to be afraid of ghost, what do you call it,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: ghost typing. I think it was the, there was a
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: program that could be put onto your computer that would
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: record every keystroke that you make. And I'm sure that's
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: still out there. I don't think we talk about it
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: much anymore because now it just seems so antiquated. Now
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: the government or whoever wants it, scamming places that are
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: across the world, they can get all of that information
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: whenever they want. Virtually every bit of your information is
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: on sale on the black market. Your phone number, your
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: date of birth, your social security number. You just got
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: to do your best to watch that stuff, watch your
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  Speaker 3: accounts and try to be careful with your information and
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: hope for the best.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the biggest thing too, is I just think
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: about some Some of the emails that I get or
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: just not only work emails, but just in life. And
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: they got a company name, a company phone number, personal name,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: personal email. And it's just in the signature of the email.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: And that's a lot of information that somebody can use
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: to find you pretty easily.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: And the worst part about that, Peyton, is that there
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: are so many things you have to do in order
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: to be able to interact with companies. You have to
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: do this e-sign on some stuff. Your medical records, oh
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: my goodness. Medical records scare the heck out of me
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: because they are not confidential. Oh, they might be confidential
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: to you and I. I couldn't go and find your medical.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Right, your personal name, personal email. And it's just in
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the signature of the email. And that's a lot of
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: information that somebody can use to find you pretty easily.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: And the worst part about that Peyton, is that there
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: are so many things you have to do in order
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: to be able to interact with companies.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: You have to do this e-sign on some stuff.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Your medical records, oh my goodness, medical records scare the
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: heck out of me because they are not confidential. Oh,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: they might be confidential to you and I. I couldn't
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: go and find your medical records. I couldn't do that.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: I don't have that ability or that knowledge. But anybody
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: who wants to will be able to pull that stuff up.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of things that you have to
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: be very careful. And even if you were 100% doing
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: everything right, you could still be hacked easily.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: And that's sad. So flock cameras, it's just another part
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Another part of it, and I'll close the Flock cameras
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: with this. This email comes from John. Hello, Lucy and Peyton.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I'm strongly opposed. I just want to ask some good
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: questions that I don't know the answer to. You could
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: chime in if you do, Lucy. Who are they operated by?
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Well, Flock is a private company.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: True.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: And they are the ones that operate them.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: They give access of the information to the law enforcement
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: or to the government or whoever is seeking that information.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: That is what I believe. That is the way I
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: understand it works.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: That is true, and Flock does operate it, and that's
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: kind of the scary part of it a little bit.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: And I know Chris Baker says that, according to his
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: law enforcement circle, that they keep the data for 30 days,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: and then it gets wiped.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Well, they may or they may not. That's something we'll
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: never know.
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: We'll never know.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: You can tell us whatever you want, and I tend
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: to believe law enforcement. I tend to believe them. So
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: I would say that that's probably the case. But there
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: are also just, as you mentioned, the generic idea of
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: calling them flock cameras, all of the surveillance cameras. There
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: are license plate reader cameras. I don't know if those
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: are any different, if they have less technology than the
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: typical flat camera. I don't know if those are different,
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: but I know the cameras that the emailer talked about
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: the law enforcement having access to, I'm wondering if those
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: are just license plate readers.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I wonder if there's somebody we could talk to
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: about this. I'm sure we could find somebody. John finishes
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: the email. This is a bipartisan issue, and I hope
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: the CD2 candidates and gubernatorial candidates prioritize regulating or banning these.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Seems very 1984-ish.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Well, there's a lot that seems very 1984-ish and has
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: been since– well, since 1984. But I don't see these
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: cameras being– Being regulated, maybe it may be regulated, but
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: they're not going away. There is no way we're going
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: to lose that technology just because both sides, and you're right,
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: it is bipartisan. Both sides have problems with some of
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: these cameras. I don't see it going away.
• 36:16
  Speaker 8: Neither do I.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: 402-558-1110, comment at kfab.com. Lucy Chapman filling in as host
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: of the KFAB comment line today for Gene Stothert, returning
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: next after the break. Lucy Chapman filling in for Gene
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Stothert today on the KFAB comment line. My name is
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Peyton Highlock. I'm having some fun with you today, Lucy.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: I am having fun too.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I'm having a lot of fun and I got to
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: talk back here. We'll kick off the segment with this.
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: Lucy, you did a fantastic job today, especially handling that caller, Chuck,
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: who was trying to catch you up.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: You did so good.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: Be proud of yourself. Thank you. It was a very
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: enjoyable hour.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: Aw. Thanks.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Sweet.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: I love that. Thank you for the call, for the talkback.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: That is very fun. This comes from Tim. It's an email. Lucy,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: you got any extra spare good-looking flock cameras? Why do
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: they have to be good-looking?
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Good-looking flock photos. Yeah, that's very interesting. On the phone
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: lines we go. Cheryl, you are now live with Lucy
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Chapman on 1110 KFAB.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Hi, Cheryl.
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: I enjoy your work very much.
• 37:26
  Speaker 10: Oh, thank you. I was wondering if you've ever done
• 37:28
  Speaker 10: voice work for Xfinity or Comcast.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: Maybe.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Your voice sounds.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Very familiar when I call those companies.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Do we have Comcast here in town?
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: I'm in Washington State.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're in Washington State. Wow, long distance.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Do you remember the old days where you had to
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: call late at night when it was long distance to
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: save yourself some money?
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: I used to live in Omaha area and I just
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: carried you with me, so.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate your call. Thank you so much for listening.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Are you listening on your iHeartRadio app?
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: Yes. Awesome.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much for calling.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: Thank you, ma'am.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: Bye-bye.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Cheryl. And we don't have too much longer here, Lucy.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I got an email from Mary earlier in the hour,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: and I think many of you listeners will get the
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: sentiment of this one as well. Did we get an
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: official update on the bee suit?
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, the official update was that it was about as
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: thin as paper towels. So I didn't think I wanted
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: to risk it. And I did a little bit of
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: research on the wasps, and they are kind of your
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: garden variety. So they leave after the first frost. They'll
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: leave that nest, and they won't rebuild in that same spot.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: So since they weren't really bothering me too much or
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: it's been so rainy I haven't been able to go outside,
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: I just left them. So the first frost, I will
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: go and knock the nest down, and I'm going to
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: keep the helmet from the bee suit because it's kind
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: of cool.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: And so you could use it as a Halloween costume though, right?
• 39:08
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: There you go. Lucy Chapman filling in today for Gene
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Stothert on the KFAB comment line. Gary Saddlemyer is going
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: to be filling in on the show tomorrow. What a
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: fun hour.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun. I have enjoyed this
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: quite a bit.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: Peyton, thank you.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: You made it so easy.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Lucy. You can find all of the
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: episodes of the KFAB comment line on the iHeartRadio app
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: or KFAB.com. slash podcast, and you can see everything there. Now,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: whether you have questions for Lucy, Gary Saddlemeyer tomorrow, reach
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: out to us, 402-558-1110. Comment at kfab.com. We can get
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: these regardless. You send it tonight, we can get it tomorrow,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: and we can answer all the questions that you have.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us today on the KFAB Comment Line.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Lucy Chapman, I hope you have a great rest of
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: your day.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Thank you. You too, Peyton.