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Gary Sadlemyer Joins the Show · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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  Speaker 1: I am so lucky to have a special guest with
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  Speaker 1: me today. Gary Sadelemeyer is here. Welcome back to your
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  Speaker 1: your home.
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  Speaker 2: Morning time. I had to ask you, don't want to
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  Speaker 2: be called mayor anymore?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'd never correct people.
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  Speaker 1: If I see him out on the street and they
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  Speaker 1: say hi, Mayor, I don't correct them.
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  Speaker 2: But it's kind of an honorarium for life.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve years it is, and it's just like a president
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  Speaker 1: or a governor. But you know what, I I don't
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  Speaker 1: use it around here, and I hope people can stop
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  Speaker 1: doing that.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I told Scott at the very beginning, quit calling me
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  Speaker 1: the former mayor. Everybody in Omaha knows I'm not the
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  Speaker 1: mayor anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So well, it's good to be here, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good to have you here.
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  Speaker 1: Such a familiar face in the studio and a familiar
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  Speaker 1: voice on the air.
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  Speaker 2: But this was a turn about here. How many times
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  Speaker 2: did I interview you?
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  Speaker 1: Probably? Well, I was going to say probably hundreds of times.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I told Peyton, who's here, our producer, I
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  Speaker 1: told him there were plenty of times that you probably
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  Speaker 1: didn't want me on the show that I was calling saying,
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  Speaker 1: can I be on the show because you interviewed me
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  Speaker 1: plenty of times, and I remember one thing you said.
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  Speaker 1: Is one criticism you had of me, as I talked
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  Speaker 1: too much.
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  Speaker 2: No, I would, I would. I would text you from
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  Speaker 2: time to time say the segments relatively short.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so keep it short. I know it, and I
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  Speaker 3: tend to do that.
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  Speaker 2: This morning show format is different, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, yes it is.
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  Speaker 1: And you have to jump to commercials all the time.
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  Speaker 1: And you're going to stay with us a whole hour.
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  Speaker 2: Or whatever you want. Okay, he kicked me out.
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  Speaker 3: Well that is good because it's nice.
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  Speaker 2: To meet you. By the good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we met for the first time in the hallway.
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  Speaker 1: You would believe that that wouldn't be the case.
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  Speaker 2: I've been listening and he he.
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  Speaker 1: Knows you're the legend around here. Obviously we come in
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  Speaker 1: and sit in the Gary Sattlemeyer studio every day. But
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  Speaker 1: Peyton's doing a really good job. He's a he's a
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  Speaker 1: producer of my show. And then the long four hours
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  Speaker 1: in the afternoon every day with that Chris Baker, that
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  Speaker 1: dear Chris.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, I did.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of emails to him with a Dear Chris,
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  Speaker 1: and he uses my voice every now and and I
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  Speaker 1: had to say one day, are those really real? And
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  Speaker 1: they really are real those emails, so are good for
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  Speaker 1: him for reading them. But Gary, I know you've been
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  Speaker 1: on Scott's show already, but I think people are glad
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  Speaker 1: to hear your voice again. But once again, I'll walk
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  Speaker 1: down memory lane. Forty nine years in broadcasting.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, almost to the day here at KFAB.
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  Speaker 1: At CAFAB for over three decades. But you've been anchoring
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  Speaker 1: the KFAB morning news. That's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, you know, I started out nights and weekends
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  Speaker 2: and then that afternoons.
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  Speaker 1: For years, and then you did Nebraska football in the
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  Speaker 1: eighties to mid nineties, right.
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  Speaker 2: Early eighties to mid nineties, nineteen eighties through ninety five.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason that you decided to retire at this
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  Speaker 1: time in your life is you wanted to spend more
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  Speaker 1: time with your kids, with your grandkids.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, travel, all all the usual things, and another big one,
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  Speaker 2: as I mentioned on air at the time, was just
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  Speaker 2: to have some When you do a morning show, you're
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  Speaker 2: really a slave to your schedule because you' getting up
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the night. Absolutely, And so the
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  Speaker 2: time I had away from here, a lot of it
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  Speaker 2: was spent in preparation and then going to bed again.
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  Speaker 2: So and I needed some time to do other things.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, did you do after being in broadcasting as long
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  Speaker 1: and doing the show as long as you did, did
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  Speaker 1: you have to do? I'll seal a lot of prep
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  Speaker 1: every night before the next morning show.
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  Speaker 2: I've always said this about this format, news radio, talk radio.
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  Speaker 2: Preparation is NonStop, whether it's formally sitting down, reading something,
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  Speaker 2: taking notes, doing more research. That's part of it too.
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  Speaker 2: But you just always have to have your radar up
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  Speaker 2: because these issues are going to be up the next morning, right,
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  Speaker 2: and you have to have a grasp, have an idea,
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  Speaker 2: and you.
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  Speaker 3: Have to be able to talk about it and answer questions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah and so, and which is for for me because
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  Speaker 2: I like that. I wouldn't say I'm a news junkie,
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  Speaker 2: but I like to pay attention to what's going on
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  Speaker 2: locally and nationally.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I find that too, because even as mayor,
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  Speaker 1: as a city council member, I always would read the newspaper,
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  Speaker 1: I'd read the Wall Street Journal, I would I would
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  Speaker 1: look at what's going on in Lincoln. I would listen
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  Speaker 1: to the news all of those things because I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to keep up with what was going on. So I
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  Speaker 1: did those things anyway, I pay a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: attention to them now than I did.
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  Speaker 2: You get into more detail when you know you're going
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  Speaker 2: to go on the air with it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, do you find when you're out in public? Do
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  Speaker 1: people recognize you? They recognize your voice.
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  Speaker 2: Once the world went digital and there are pictures of
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  Speaker 2: people everywhere on the internet, you're easy to look up.
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  Speaker 2: What I love is when somebody will recognize me because
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  Speaker 2: they hear my voice. I love that one. I always
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  Speaker 2: loved it before the Internet and all that, where you
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  Speaker 2: could really be anonymous. If you're a radio person, you
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  Speaker 2: can go be an idiot or just be you know,
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  Speaker 2: have a nice to inter and arrest tro and be private.
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  Speaker 2: Not so much anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have people come up to you and say,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing with all this free times?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: I get that too, and I think I'm busy.
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  Speaker 1: All the time.
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  Speaker 2: I know that, isn't that weird?
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  Speaker 3: I know it well.
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  Speaker 1: I told you Gary and I met after I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: maryor anymore, but before you had actually retired, and.
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  Speaker 3: I told you, I said, you're gonna love it.
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  Speaker 1: Retirement's the best job I've ever had, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it really is. Actually we kind of both come from
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  Speaker 1: the you know, a background of doing something every day
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  Speaker 1: and being busy every day and have to be preparing
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  Speaker 1: every single day. And I really like, for me, I
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  Speaker 1: really wanted to be Mary again. I really did. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought, you know, we had a good thing going.
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  Speaker 1: We were we were, I had a great team. I
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed going to work. But now that I'm not, I'm
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  Speaker 1: enjoying this too. I mean, it gives you this new freedom.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: It is incredible, though, how not in a bad way,
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  Speaker 2: but how busy. I didn't didn't really expect that I
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  Speaker 2: do this today, that them are the planner becomes pretty important. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta check the planner. What do I have today?
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  Speaker 2: I know, I kind of like that because there's not
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  Speaker 2: there was not pressure with.
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  Speaker 1: It, right, I've mastered my Google calendar. I think I
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  Speaker 1: was putting everything. I had somebody do it for me
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  Speaker 1: for twelve years, and I was putting everything in on
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  Speaker 1: the wrong dates, like being.
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  Speaker 2: Busy on my own terms. You know, like you do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you didn't have to do this right, but
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  Speaker 2: you enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: And I go to things in the evening that I
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  Speaker 1: want to and not that I have to. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I remember I talking interrupting, speaking of that as a mayor.
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  Speaker 2: I remember talking to PJ. Morgan one time, but back
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  Speaker 2: when he was mayor, and he said it literally, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I don't think his wife cared for
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  Speaker 2: it much. That there was every night, almost every night,
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  Speaker 2: and you kind of had to be there, and there
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  Speaker 2: were multiple things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday too, Like I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was something almost every single day. And if I
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  Speaker 1: would turn somebody down because I already made a commit demanding,
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  Speaker 1: they would get mad, you know. And so but you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think with you and me here, we are of
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  Speaker 1: the age we're about. Of course you're so much a
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  Speaker 1: lot like a year. But maybe if I was, or
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  Speaker 1: we were in our fifties our forties, it might be
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  Speaker 1: it might be quite different. But I think now I'm
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  Speaker 1: enjoying this. I love to travel. I love you know.
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  Speaker 1: I have one My son is in Cincinnati. I have
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  Speaker 1: two little grandsons there. I didn't get to see them
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  Speaker 1: that much.
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  Speaker 2: I get to your home in St. Louis. Yeah, come
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  Speaker 2: up here every morning.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that the most aggravating thing that you have heard
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  Speaker 1: about me, and I still have people say, well, I'm
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  Speaker 1: surprised you're doing that show. Is it from your home
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  Speaker 1: in Saint Louis? And you and I have talked about that.
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  Speaker 1: We couldn't shake that, I mean, and it was so
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous because I haven't lived in Saint Louis since the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, nor has my husband. People would say, well,
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  Speaker 1: her husband lives in Saint Louis. My husband lives in Omaha.
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  Speaker 1: He's lived here for four years now, but he had
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  Speaker 1: been in the on the east coast in Maryland for
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  Speaker 1: the last fifty years. That's where he lived, not in
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  Speaker 1: Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 2: Carnisan politics take it ruins things. It's really unfortunate because
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  Speaker 2: the folks who didn't like you politically, and you know
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  Speaker 2: what I like it to what's going on and has
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  Speaker 2: for the past several months with ICE, immigration and customs
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  Speaker 2: enforcement and the fact that they're wearing masks. It's been
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  Speaker 2: said five thousand times minimum that the reason for that
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  Speaker 2: is so that they're not identified and their homes get
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  Speaker 2: attacked or their family they get docked. Absolutely, if you
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  Speaker 2: say that five thousand and one times will people believe
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  Speaker 2: it now because they hate they hate the organization, and
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  Speaker 2: they hate Trump and all that. It just drives me crazy
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  Speaker 2: when you can't explain something and people just refuse to
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  Speaker 2: hear it.
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  Speaker 1: Horrible. The whole, the whole Saint Louis thing is probably
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  Speaker 1: the one that I I said, I think I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to put on my tombstone.
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  Speaker 3: She does not live in Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 1: My goods, And you know what, I lived in Saint
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  Speaker 1: Louis less than ten years of my entire life. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't move to Saint Louis. I was born and raised
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  Speaker 1: in Illinois. I didn't move there till after I graduated
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  Speaker 1: from nursing school because my first job was at Saint
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  Speaker 1: Louis University, and I moved there to live in an
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  Speaker 1: apartment near the hospital. I lived there less than ten
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  Speaker 1: years of my entire life. But everybody says, mm mmm,
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  Speaker 1: you live in Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 2: Your mom was there, right?
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  Speaker 1: My mom was, I would say the Saint Louis area,
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  Speaker 1: because she was in Illinois too. I was born in Alton, Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: raised in Wood River, about twenty minutes from Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 1: But if I said I'm going to Wood River, Illinois.
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  Speaker 1: People would go, huh, and so I just say, it's
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  Speaker 1: back in the Saint Louis area. So no, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: And I spent some time going back and forth in
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  Speaker 1: like twenty twenty because she was old, yeah, near the yes,
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  Speaker 1: and we were trying to you're going to move around
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  Speaker 1: of the house I grew up in into did living.
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  Speaker 1: So I went back and forth quite a bit. My
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  Speaker 1: sister and I were trying to move her. But people
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  Speaker 1: just assumed that's because I live there. But anyway that
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's neither here nor there. Now, let me
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  Speaker 1: ask you a few questions because you used to ask
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  Speaker 1: me all these hard questions. But I was going to say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Peyton is in here with us today. He's
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  Speaker 1: an aspiring radio maybe TV personality in the future. What
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  Speaker 1: is one piece of advice that you would give to
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  Speaker 1: someone who is starting in this field? Run No, but really,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what's your advice? Because I'm going to say
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  Speaker 1: on the air, what advice you gave me? I ask you, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I said, if I'm going to do this show, give
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  Speaker 1: me some advice, and you said, just be yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think so if you're doing now, if you're
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  Speaker 2: back in the day when there were a lot of
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  Speaker 2: jocks playing records and stuff, you're not really yourself. But
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  Speaker 2: if you're doing spoken word radio talk show particularly, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think you can fake it. Maybe some people can,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know how you do that. I think
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  Speaker 2: you have to be who you are when these issues
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  Speaker 2: come up, say what you think, and people agree or
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  Speaker 2: disagree or whatever, correct you. But you have to be
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  Speaker 2: And Peyton, I think is great at this. I've been
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  Speaker 2: listening Peyton since you've been on here, and if you
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  Speaker 2: want to pursue this, you you're going to do great.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, he's got to face he could do TV too.
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  Speaker 2: I never had that problem.
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  Speaker 3: He's got it right. Yeah, that's good though.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's good that somebody like you has recognized
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  Speaker 1: that because I think you've got to be quick too,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: I always you got to be paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, you got.
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  Speaker 3: To be paying attention. You got to be quick.
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  Speaker 1: I always.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, here's another thing, Peyton and Gene. Interviews suffer
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  Speaker 2: if they don't become a conversation. And the way they
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  Speaker 2: become a conversation is you actually listen to what the
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  Speaker 2: guest is saying, you know, and then respond to that
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  Speaker 2: if it's required. Some people say, Okay, I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 2: to my next question. Now, wait a minute, she just
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  Speaker 2: said the Woodman Tower is going to be demolished. You
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  Speaker 2: didn't catch that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to actually listen.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I think they always say that there's two kinds of people.
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  Speaker 1: There's people that listen and there's people that talk. But
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  Speaker 1: the successful people can do both right, and you have
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  Speaker 1: to listen. You have to be able to talk and
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  Speaker 1: you have to be able to listen to be successful.
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  Speaker 3: Did you in.
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  Speaker 1: Your career did you have anybody that was real influential
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  Speaker 1: that was like a role model to you?
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  Speaker 2: Many many. I was fortunate growing up in Minnesota to
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  Speaker 2: have what I still to this day consider to be
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  Speaker 2: the greatest, the greatest radio station in America during the
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  Speaker 2: sixties and seventies, w CCO in Minneapolis to listen to,
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  Speaker 2: and I lived a couple hours away from there, the
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  Speaker 2: big stay. It's like oka kfab of Minnesota. And those
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  Speaker 2: guys were awesome. Really, they're still in my head today,
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  Speaker 2: all of them. And then to come here and to
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  Speaker 2: be mendored by the likes of Lyle Bremser and Ken
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  Speaker 2: Hendrick and Jack Payne Walkavanaugh and learn from them absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And I think for most people in any occupation or
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  Speaker 2: any walk of life, you take what you can from
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  Speaker 2: those who are experienced, and if your ego doesn't override it,
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  Speaker 2: you learn from that. And yeah, so yeah, but those
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  Speaker 2: guys back then Boone and Ericson, Howard Vike and Steve
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  Speaker 2: Cannon for those from Minnesota of a certain vintage will
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  Speaker 2: recognize those names. It was like a masterclass every day
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  Speaker 2: just listening to them. One of the reasons I want
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  Speaker 2: to get into this was listening to people. And I
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  Speaker 2: remember I remember at some point as a kid, I
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  Speaker 2: realized I wasn't listening to the radio the way other
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  Speaker 2: people do, you know, It's just kind of on and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, Okay, what's he doing in there? What's that like?
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  Speaker 1: And you said that you wanted to be in radio
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  Speaker 1: from when you were a kid.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, really, it was one of the things I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, So let me ask you this, of all
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  Speaker 1: the people you ever interviewed, did you have a favorite
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  Speaker 1: besides me?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, besides you, that's right about that. Yeah, If
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  Speaker 2: I had to pick one, I would say the hour
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  Speaker 2: I spent with Barry Switzer, Okay, the Great Oakline and
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  Speaker 2: he's still ticking down there in Norman, Oklahoma, the great
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma coach, and Tom Osborne Contemporary and those great battles.
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  Speaker 2: And when he published his book and they are go
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  Speaker 2: on a book tour and he came around Bootlegger's Boy
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  Speaker 2: as a book. I recommend it if you haven't read it.
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  Speaker 2: And I was doing the afternoon show and this would
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  Speaker 2: have been Yeah, she whis nineties, somewhere in the nineties,
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  Speaker 2: and he came in and just sat down in the
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  Speaker 2: studio with me. We just talked for an hour. Because
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  Speaker 2: I had interviewed him I don't know how many times
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  Speaker 2: over the course of my football broadcast, you know, but
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  Speaker 2: they would be short by the ten minute interviews about
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  Speaker 2: the upcoming game. But here was a real conversation. I
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  Speaker 2: love that. Very memorable to me, very memorable.
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: I always get this thing in my throat every and
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  Speaker 1: everybody's trying to tell me how to get rid of it,
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  Speaker 1: because a minute I walk out of this studio at eleven,
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  Speaker 1: it goes away.
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  Speaker 3: It's my allergy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you, I have that too.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just picking your.
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  Speaker 1: Brain a little bit here if you could how about
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  Speaker 1: this question, if you could do an interview with any
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  Speaker 1: historical figure anybody? Oh boy, who would that be?
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  Speaker 2: Bring him back alive? Other than Jesus, which I do
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  Speaker 2: hope to have.
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  Speaker 1: That chat someday, I'm we will.
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  Speaker 2: What about that? Other than that, I would probably say
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: George Washington to me, Rosie and I used to have
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: this argument all the time. He was the greatest president
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: ever and he thanks Lincoln, and I think Washington. You
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: can't lose with either one. Most of the historic historians
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: are with Rosie on Lincoln. But George Washington, if you
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: if you've really ever looked at what happened back then
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: and what he did and what they did, and he
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: was the indispensable man to be able to sit down
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: and really just talk. You know, I've never been a
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: big one for can only of your autograph? I don't
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: you know? Or just how do you do that? That
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: is never. But if you can actually have a conversation with.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Somebody, wouldn't that be he would?
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I think probably? And there's so many to choose from,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: but he would probably be a number one.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: And I know you know you were you were so
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: familiar like with broadcasting and with interviewing people.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Just give me your thoughts on this.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: So that we've been I've been debating for the last
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: several weeks that the directors that I hired, every one
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: of them except the police chief, touch Matter and public
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Works director Stuby. I've hired and worked with him for
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: twelve years. And now the current mayor, John Ewing is
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: saying they will all be declined to be on my
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: show because I won't be objective and they would have
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: to defend him. To me, that is one of the
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: most absurd things I've ever heard, because number One, I
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: know what they're doing, and I support what they're doing.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I'm just I want to bring them on to give
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the public information, and I think the public deserves to
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: be able to hear from these public employees that are
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: paid with taxpayer dollars. If there's a snowstorm, have public
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: works on, if there is a big development project, have
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: planning on, if there's a public safety issue, have the
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: police chief on.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: And now he's saying no, they can't. What's your thoughts.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I don't like it, Jane. I think now if you
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: brought somebody on and it turned out that you were
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: doing an ambush interview and attacking the mayor. Then I
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: could see him instituting this policy. But you're right, you
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: have a long form show here where important information can
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: be transmitted to citizens of Omaha. People are saying, yeah,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: what about this? What about that? We'll go to the
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: department head and get those answers. That's what we do
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: and our various shows all the time. And it was
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: not an adversarial there was an informational thing.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: And that's all I would do.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: In fact, I've had one director on so far before
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: he did this order, and that was the fire chief,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Kathy Bossman, Chief Bossman, and I had her on to
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: talk a number that the fires in western Nebraska. I mean,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I wasn't asking her to defend anything or to I
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: wasn't being non objective, but to just say, come on
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: and inform the people of current issues that people want
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: to know about, get facts about.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'll ask you if you had won and
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: John and we invited John Ewing to do the comment
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: line for an hour every day, and he accepted because
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: it wasn't a fun campaign. You guys weren't, none of
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: them were. No. But what your what would your posture
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: have Ben. If you suspected then apparently he does that
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: it would be a way for him to get back
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: at you somehow.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: See. I like the challenge.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: And I have been in so many forms and debates
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: with John Ewing, with my other opponents, you know, I mean,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Heath Mellow was an opponent of mine in twenty seventeen.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: We're best of friends. Taylor Royal was an opponent of mine.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: We're best of friends. I mean, you get over it,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: you move on. But I have been in so many
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: debates with John Ewing and heard things he said critical
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: of me, and you know that's kind of how campaigns go.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: But I like the being able.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: To stand up there and say no, that's not accurate,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: or here is what is accurate.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind it. I would like the challenge of it.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I think it's unfortunate.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: I think it is too four.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, whatever is between you two, to me.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: It should be water.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: The bridge side. The point for folks listening who want
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: to know about that big project.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Absolutely why is this bridge out? And that is something
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I would never set with the directors. Well, before we
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: go into break, I want to say, well, talk about
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: one thing that I've been talking about a lot, and
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: then I'm going to bring up a few other things
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and then let's open up the line for question. But
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Artemis two landed exactly at the minute they said it
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: was going to land, right off the coast of San Diego.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Unbelievable what they did. They were two hundred and fifty
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: two thousand miles from Earth, more further away than any
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: human has ever been, and everything about that whole light
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: was just absolutely perfect. It was amazing to me, except
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a malfunctioning toilet, and I guess that they got to
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: fix that, that's for sure if they're going to be
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: in space longer. But all those astronauts back, and the
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: one of the funniest things that I saw is when
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: they were showing them still on board the capsule with
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that jar of Natella that floated, that floated in front
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: of the camera, and I thought it was so funny
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: because Nutella couldn't ask for a better commercial for the
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: rest of their lives. But good job to the four astronauts.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: They're they're back on Earth now. I guess they're getting
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: used to gravity again, and what a what a perfect
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: flight that was, And now they're going to do they'll
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: have Artemis three about landing on the moon and then
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: onto what the goal is.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: There is a reason we say it's not rocket science.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Those people are unbelievable. They are unbelievable. We would have
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: a very short conversation, Yes, one of those one of
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: those NASA guys in me that would ad. I mean,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: how do you do this? It's unbelievable.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: How do you do it?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: And how do you know that you're going to come
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: be coming back in a ball of flames at five
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: thousand degrees temperature?
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: At what were they at?
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: At twenty five thousand miles per I mean, oh, good lord,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: but they're back. It was successful, and I'm happy about that.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: See it's like, I don't want to be called the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I don't want to be called the former mayor. You
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: don't want to be called the former host. Everybody knows
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: you're not the current host. I said, there's not one
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: living creature in Omaha that doesn't know I'm not the
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: mayor anymore, including my six year old grandson. So we
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: got to quit calling me the former mayor. But Gary,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: one thing I didn't bring up.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: You're engaged to Linda.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: You're going to get married again.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: That is wonderful.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Well, that's a thing, and I've met her. She's great, Yeah,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: she is. Huh. Engagement is one thing. Wedding isn't. I
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: mean that's down that's down the road. So I mean
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: we're not really we're not really talking about setting a
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: date or making those kind of plans yet, but we
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: wanted to, I guess formal as a commitment. And she's wonderful.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: She is.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: She's bubbly.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And as I'm sure you know, if you have
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: so much in common with somebody in common, that's huge.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: It is huge.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: We have so much fun, and you.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Know, you and I and Linda are all in a
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: group of people that we never thought we would be.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And that is we lost our spouse, right, And I
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: did it a little bit differently because I knew Kevin,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: who I'm married to now years and years and years ago.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I dated em years and years ago, forty five years ago.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: But we didn't even get engaged. We just said we
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: had that much. Yeah, we just had that much in common.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: And is he cheap?
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah no, But you know he was living far away.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Linda's here. He was living in Maryland for the last
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: fifty years. That's where he did his residency at Johns Hopkins.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: He's an anesthesiologist, and so I wanted him, you know,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and we started talking on the phone and then everything,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: you know, the rest was history. But we just went
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: and got married. Yeah, and I knew I wanted to
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: be with him, so we went and got married. Of course,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: people criticized us for saying I didn't wait long enough,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: but you know, it's it's your life. And again at
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: our age, Gary, again you're so much older that lot. Yeah,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: but decades like a year.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: But anyway, well, good for you and Linda.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. Since Roseanne passed and it'll be
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: nine years this summer, I've had a friend or two
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: who've lost their spouses and they'll ask me about, you know,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: the process and when you get over it and all that.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I said, I don't give anybody any advice except except
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: don't let anybody tell you.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: How to do this exactly.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: And if you read books on I grief and mending,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: that is the one common thread that individuals are and
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: how I mean I know, I know one one friend
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: who lost his wife and he was attached again within
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: well inside a year, and then married. Most are not,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: but as far as how you handle that loss, I
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: can't tell. Everybody does it in their own way.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Everybody's different. Everybody handles grief and death differently. Even my
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: kids handled it.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I have two kids, and they handled it differently. So
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: you can't tell anybody when this is when they're going
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: to get over it.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: You can't say over it again. And I don't actually
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: like that term.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Oh I don't either.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: You don't.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: You never do right.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: No. Time is a great healer, There's no doubt about that.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: But you still have your moments, there's no doubt. Yeah.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: So agree, I was.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I was fortunate, very fortunate, dated a little bit done
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: with that, and then here comes Rosie introducing me to this.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Lady, Rosie. I was going to ask you how you
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: met Rosie introduced.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: You twenty twenty three.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Rosie's a matchmaker.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Well I owe him and Jenna for this. One did
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: a listener cruise. He does a holiday vacations cruise, and
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: they had They did a Ryan cruise in October of
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, and the previous spring he'd been, you know,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: promoting it. The deadline for signing up was coming, and
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Linda happened to be listening that morning and she'd lost
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: her husband and she said that sounds like fun. And
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: she and her daughter went on this cruise and they
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: hit it off with Jem and Jenna and they would
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: talk every day. And so Rosie starts in, you, hey,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: you're dating anybody? I got somebody who should meet. She
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: wasn't really interested, but he starts selling me to her.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: And then he comes back here and he starts selling
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: her to me. You need to meet. Yeah, well whatever,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: you know, and then he said, he said, okay, here's
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: the deal. Nebraska, Wisconsin, November eighteenth, twenty twenty three. It
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: was a night game. You come over, I'll have Linda
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: come over, and that way you can you can meet.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: So that's how we met.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: He really is a matchmaker.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And we texted the next day and decided, yeah,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: we should maybe go out, and we went out a
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks later and just so hit it off.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: You know, yeah, that is great, that's great, that's.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: That's how So. Yeah, I owe Rosie, there's no doubt.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: And Jenna, Jim and Janna, they were very and Linda
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: says that to you, we got it. We got to
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: always remember whenever he gets over the top, annoying that
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: he's the one, you know, Jim not always right, but
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: never in doubt. That's Rosie.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm happy for both of you. And you know,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: like I said, mine was different. I dated Kevin forty
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: five years ago, dating him for about a year. I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: was a nurse, he was a medical student, and nothing
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: bad happened. We just kind of drifted apart and he
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: ended up going to Too Lane in New Orleans for
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: his residency, and we.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Just kind of drifted apart.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I got married to somebody else and was married forty
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: one years, yes, and then we got back together. So
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: it was it was somebody I knew in the past.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: You know, I had met his parents and I knew
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: his sisters.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: It's just a full story. I remember you introduced me
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: when we were down to the press.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Club for some of them, and yeah, he's a great guy.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: And it wasn't long after that that that you were
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: a married. He is a great guy. Yeah, he is.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: How's old Kevin doing.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: He's old Kevin. If he's listening, Old Kevin is doing.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: He's a golfer.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: He was glued to the Masters all weekend. But he
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: is just he's keeping himself very very busy. And by
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the way, for all you Facebook doubters, he loves living
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: in Omaha and he's been here for four years now.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, really, he sold his house in Maryland and you know,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: moved here and he lived a block away from Chesapeake
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Bay and I said, you know, you traded chest Peak
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Bay for the Missouri River in I eighty that's where
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: we but you got me, So there you go.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Hey, a couple of things I wanted to bring up,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and then I hope we have some calls for you, Gary.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: But the spring cleanup, I always have to bring that
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: up because that's something I worked on starting a spring
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: cleanup and a fall cleanup for the city of Omaha's
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: coming up. And I would love to have Public Works
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: on to talk about this, but they are not allowed
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: to be on this show. But I just wanted to
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: bring that up because it's a real convenient and freeway
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: for people to dispose of large items that don't fit
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: in your weekly trash ninety six gallon trash cart. Remember
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: before we got the new trash pickup, you could literally
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: put a sofa in a barbecue grill out on the
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: on the curb, and the City of Omaha would pick
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: it up. Well, we can't do that anymore because it's
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: got to fit into the cart. But the cleanup will
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: run from nine am to two pm on these Saturdays.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: It's April eighteenth, April twenty fifth, May second, May ninth,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and May sixteenth. But you can get all that information online.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: It's called Cleanup dot Wastelines ark HERB. You can Well,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: there's drop off places. There's drop off places everywhere, and
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: there's things, I mean, they'll take mattresses, furniture, appliances, yard waste,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: they'll take just about anything. They won't take things like concrete.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: But it's a really good time for people to get
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: rid of stuff that they don't want and that they
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: don't want, you know, they can't dispose of on the
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: curb anymore. One thing is about that I want to
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: bring up is about recycling and when now we have
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: those ninety six gallon carts in the City of Omaha
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: for recycling, and the recycling has gone up huge amounts
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: since they started doing this. But one thing that people
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: can and you to put in a recycle bind. I'm
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: just going to say this are diapers don't do that.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Dirty diapers do not go and recycle binds either do
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: greasy pizza boxes. But there's but the recycling that's going
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: on in Omaha is really really increased too. So, like
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I said, if you're interested in that, there's this is
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: a great chance to get rid of a lot of
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the things that you don't want anymore. But it's cleanup
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: dot waistline dot org. And you could read about that online,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: which is a great service at the City of Omaha provides.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: And again it's free. And another thing I wanted to
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: bring up is that new library. Lots of people have
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: a lot of thought. What do you think about the
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: design of that library?
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Spectacular image as you drive it is through that intersection there.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: I haven't been outside yet.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing. What the architects did. I mean, it's
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: it's it's a toss up about what people think about
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the outside of it.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure myself. I mean, it is I
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: want it every day because it was I'd come through
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: seventy second dodge. It is every day during construction. That's
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: really interesting. I got to be frank with you, I'm
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: not sure. I like the front.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: It's different.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: I love that that the I don't know if candle
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: lever is the right word, but the stairstep design on
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: the windows of the glass on the side.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Is really cool.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: It's the front.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what I'm.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Looking at there, and I've had a lot of people
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: say that. And you know, it's changed from the beginning
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: because the beginning design from the architects, it looked like
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: an open book.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: It was supposed to look like an open book.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: And it changed from the original design, but it's still
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: it's got all that on the outside is glass, but
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: you ought to see the view.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: From the inside.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I can imagine it's pretty spectacular. But next Sunday, April nineteenth,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the new Omaha Public Library Central Library at seventy second
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: in Dodge will open and it will be open to
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the public. Now, recall that the central Library, or a
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: main what we used to call it, was a Clark
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  Speaker 1: downtown that was demoed for the new skyscraper that Mutual
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  Speaker 1: of Omaha is building there. But there was a new,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: smaller downtown library built and open and it's very very popular.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people are in there, and it's more
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: fit to a downtown who the clientele is downtown. But
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  Speaker 1: the old Dale Clark Library, a lot of people were
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: upset with that, but it was outdated, it wasn't safe.
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  Speaker 1: Even the library staff was very unhappy with it. So
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  Speaker 1: this library is really going to be something and I
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  Speaker 1: hope everybody does come and look at it. If you recall,
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  Speaker 1: it used to be in that corner was the due space,
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  Speaker 1: which was a converted.
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  Speaker 3: From an old border. Yeah in Barnes and Noble.
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  Speaker 1: They're still on the second floor of this new library.
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  Speaker 1: There is still a due spased area that has the
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  Speaker 1: three D printers and on laser cutters and all that,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's also a children's area on second floor.
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  Speaker 1: The third floor of the new library has got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of genealogy and local history collections. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I wonder though, beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: With the location. Pardon me the next the next riot
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  Speaker 2: we have, but it is it is that is that
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  Speaker 2: glass strong enough?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 2: And the doors will be opened probably and a lot
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  Speaker 2: I don't ad a riot in a while. We have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of protests and thank goodness, no kings, but
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  Speaker 2: we haven't at a riot in a while.
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  Speaker 3: And nope, and that was quite a while ago.
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  Speaker 1: That was in the summer of twenty twenty, and they
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  Speaker 1: usually if there's protests, they start at seventy second in Dodge,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: and then the one in twenty twenty, it moved downtown.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: But as they are now developing the crossroads, and that
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: after many slow downs, not starts and stops, that slow downs,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: that is underway the corner, the northeast corner of seventy
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  Speaker 1: second Dodge where pet COO is that the northeast corner
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  Speaker 1: across from Crossroads that is and purchased by an individual
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: or or company, and that is going to be redeveloped too,
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  Speaker 1: So that whole corner is going to be redeveloped, and
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  Speaker 1: I think you're going to see a lot more activity there.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully no more protest, but well yeah, but.
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  Speaker 2: This grounds there. Although I suppose you could say geographically
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  Speaker 2: now ninetieth and Dodges closer to the geographic center, But
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: there's something about seventy second and Dodge. This is where
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: we're going to be.
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  Speaker 1: And the traffic is a big concern there because that's
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: a busy intersection anyway, and when all that development happens,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: you know, we talked a lot when we were working
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  Speaker 1: on the new library. Is there going to be a
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: need for a pedestrian overpass there, something to get people
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  Speaker 1: safely from one north side of the street to the
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: south side of the street. So that's all pretty exciting.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Now thing's going on here in Omaha.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad to hear that the Omaha mud Flats, sir,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: I mean crossroads development is progressing.
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  Speaker 1: I drive by it every time I come here, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: I mean they're grading it. You know, they have a
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: new development for now and the Woodberry's out of Salt
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  Speaker 1: Lake City.
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  Speaker 3: They're great. They do this all over the country.
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  Speaker 1: So they take old malls and they redo them, and
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: so I think you're going to see a great development there.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: We're going to take a lot of calls. I thought
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: there'd be some directed at Gary, but you know, I
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: think they're just so interested in listening to you. That
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: must be I guess that's it.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Maybe you'll just have to come back.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: I got one for you, Jean, Yes, okay, we got damon. Damon.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you for calling the KFAB comment line. You're live
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: here with Jean Stouthart and Gary Stdomayer.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Yes, yeah, good morning. I've enjoyed today. I
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: don't listen a whole lot, but I do live in
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: the Dundee area.
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  Speaker 1: Gary.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: We moved down as young kids from Minneapolis in the
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: early seventies and then I travel a lot up there.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: And when you bring up WCCO and Cannon Meschel, that
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: is some some good memories. And Cannon and Steve was
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: one of a kind, as you mentioned, well all of
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: those all his mean with all his voices.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was. He was a piece of work. He
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: would do just quickly for those that don't know, he
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: had three main characters and he did all the voices himself.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: He was so good at it, practically interrupt himself and.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and Jeane. Many years ago, my mom was
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: involved highly with the Assistance League, which does a phenomenal
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: job for the children and needs. And I remember I
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: brought my dad and he was struggling with a few
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: things and I said, Dad, I'm I gotta go over here,
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: but please don't stand up. He kind of had some
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: balance issues. I come back and I said, Dad, why
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: did you stand Why are you standing?
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: I had to the mayor. The mayor just walked in
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: and I had to and yeah, and that was you,
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: respectful to you and anyway, just was kind of a
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: fond memory and you know what do I do? Yeah,
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: my dad for that, but of course I did it.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: I did, and I didn't story. I'm a the public library.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Last thing we're we're uh, we've been in a dying
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: industry for years, were book binding and we live in
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: in Omaha, but we've kept the bindery out in Utica, Nebraska.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: So the public library is sure nice to see from
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: you know, the downtown that you explained that was just
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: just worn out. So it is exciting to see that
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: new building and looking forward to to the growth of that.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: And I think, again I'm dating myself. My sisters got
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: married there or they catered that corner. I think wasn't
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: it Gary? You'd know, wasn't that Kenny's? Was it Ken? Yeah?
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: He did pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: Anyway, I've enjoyed the day. Just wanted to say hi
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: and well thanks for just kind of follow up with
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: some of your nice topics.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, I appreciate the call. You know, the
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: legislature Gary is just about to end. April seventeenth will
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: be the final day of this session. There's going to
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: be thirteen lawmakers that will I guess they call it
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: graduate they are termed out, but after they had over
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: a thousand bills to consider this year. At the last
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: minute on Friday, they pass more than sixty bills just
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: on Friday to try to wrap it up. Holy col
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I'm telling.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: You, I know, you wonder when we're going to feel
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: from that. Well, hopefully some of them are good. You
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: know what, I haven't been digging as deeply into the
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: legislation of the state as since I retired.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, we had Brad von gillern On, Senator
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: von Gilleran just a few weeks ago, who's very good.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: You know, he used to be his family business was
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Leader Construction and he's chair of Revenue Committee. And there
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: was one bill, it was eleven sixty five that finally passed,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: and that was a bill from Pillen and Senator von Gilleran,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: and that was basically meant to attract and retain major
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: employers like Union Pacific, and it kind of got that
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: nickname of the Union Pacific Bill, but it was for
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: all big businesses and it provides tax incentives for companies
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: that meet certain criteria to try to keep them here.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: And you know, since a Union Pacific had the merger,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: I know there's a there's a fear that they could
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: move down to Atlanta, and we don't have a lot
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: of business incentives here in Omaha, and so this is
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: something that I think is really going to help our
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: businesses here and hopefully keep the businesses here. There were
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: some that were opposing it, but anyway, he had since
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I was married, when we had ConAgra moved their headquarters,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: one of our Fortune five hundred companies moved their headquarters
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: to Chicago. There wasn't anything we could do to keep
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: them here because we couldn't offer them much. But we
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: don't want Union Pacific as another Fortune five company. We
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: don't want them or any of our others, or any
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: of our businesses leaving. So hopefully we'll find more out
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: about this bill, but hopefully this is going to be
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: very very good. Gary Settlemyer, thank you so much, ferbying
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  Speaker 1: here today. Thank you for all of you who are
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: listening today. We're glad you are with us and hope
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: you join us again tomorrow