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TDS debrief · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: I am your host, Jean Stothard. Peyton high Locked, my producer,
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Speaker 1: is also here. Good morning, Good morning Jean.
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Speaker 2: On a Friday.
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Speaker 1: It is a Friday, and we're gonna have a weekend
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Speaker 1: full of baseball. And for those of you that don't know,
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Speaker 1: Peyton is also the producer of the Chris Baker Show
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Speaker 1: from two to six every afternoon for those and the
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Speaker 1: other dozen people that tune into Chris Baker Show in
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Speaker 1: the afternoon.
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Speaker 2: Now, we all love Chris Baker.
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Speaker 1: You know, if people got to know Chris Baker personally,
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Speaker 1: he is one of the funniest, kindest, nicest men I've
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Speaker 1: ever met. But let's go back to making fun of him.
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Speaker 1: Now that's a lot bit more fun. Yes, but we
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Speaker 1: want to hear from you. We want to get your feedback,
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Speaker 1: We want to hear your comments, concerns, questions, complaints, really,
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Speaker 1: anything goes and we won't back away from.
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Speaker 2: Anything, will we, Peyton, Nothing at all like.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday's show, which we're going to talk a little bit
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Speaker 1: about too. But whether it's city, state, national, the world,
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Speaker 1: we're here to hear from you, and we will also
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Speaker 1: have some great guests, and of course you're gonna hear
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Speaker 1: plenty of opinion from me, but it is your chance
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Speaker 1: to speak up and sound off.
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Speaker 2: You can send your emails to.
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Speaker 1: Comment at kfab dot com or you can call us
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Speaker 1: at five five eight eleven ten. We are very happy
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Speaker 1: that you are with us today. Yesterday, we are getting
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Speaker 1: a lot of calls about this. Yesterday Dennis Crawford was on.
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Speaker 1: I explain to people that he called me or contacted
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Speaker 1: me and asked to be on the show in response
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Speaker 1: to when I had Mary Barrett on. Now, Mary Barrett
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Speaker 1: when she was on, she wouldn't talk after the election
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Speaker 1: the primary. And Mary Barrett is a lifelong Democrat who
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Speaker 1: became a Republican. Dennis said, I am a lifelong Republican
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Speaker 1: who became a Democrat, and he says, I want to
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Speaker 1: come on your show. And that's what this show is
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Speaker 1: all about. As I just said in the beginning, we
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Speaker 1: want to hear from you. Anything goes. We said, it's
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Speaker 1: your chance to speak up and sound off, and so
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Speaker 1: that's what I did yesterday. Now we're getting a lot
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Speaker 1: of calls about this. Did I agree with Dennis Crawford? No,
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Speaker 1: I did not, but my show is not set up
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Speaker 1: to debate him. I didn't want to debate him. I
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Speaker 1: didn't want to be saying no, you're wrong. I wanted
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Speaker 1: to let him speak up and sound off, just like
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Speaker 1: we promise. But I will say this, no, I didn't
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Speaker 1: agree with him on.
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Speaker 2: Many of the things that he did say.
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Speaker 1: When he actually wrote in one of his articles that
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Speaker 1: the term mega, which we all know means make America
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Speaker 1: great again, he said it means morons are governing America.
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Speaker 1: I found that offensive, and he said, well, I'm sorry
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Speaker 1: you find it offensive, but you're not governing America. Well,
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Speaker 1: I was governing Omaha for a while, and I did
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Speaker 1: ask him if he had TDS, and he said that
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Speaker 1: offended him because he's not deranged. But then after I left,
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Speaker 1: I thought, okay, but I should have said, is it
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Speaker 1: okay for the Democrats to be calling Republican fascist and
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Speaker 1: Nazis and that type of name calling. So he really
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Speaker 1: sparked a lot of controversy. You know, he is a
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Speaker 1: he lives in Lincoln, he is an attorney, he's a historian,
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Speaker 1: he's an author. But you know, anybody can spout out
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Speaker 1: a lot of statistics, a lot of dates, a lot
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Speaker 1: of information. We weren't fact checking him yesterday. Were we Peyton,
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Speaker 1: and you know, you can twist the facts and make
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Speaker 1: them suit your agenda or you're what you want to
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Speaker 1: deliver anytime, you know, And we weren't fact checking. He
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Speaker 1: was using a lot of dates and times and statistics
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Speaker 1: like they were the absolute truth.
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Speaker 2: And we're not saying that they were.
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Speaker 1: We're just saying we let him say what he wanted
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Speaker 1: to say, and he did so now we're getting a
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Speaker 1: lot of feedback about that. You know, I thought it
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Speaker 1: was an interesting conversation. But at the same time, boy,
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Speaker 1: I tell you it was. It was quite lively of
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Speaker 1: what he was saying, very very negative towards Republicans. I
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Speaker 1: got a just a note today from an Omaha attorney
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Speaker 1: that I know very well who's a Republican and he
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Speaker 1: knows this gentleman, and he said he's known for trolling
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Speaker 1: Republicans facebooks and Sony, I don't know, maybe Dennis Crawford
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Speaker 1: will troll mine. I think he said on the air
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Speaker 1: he thought I was a pretty good mayor. Okay, I'll
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Speaker 1: take that. But interesting. Do we have any comments that
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Speaker 1: we have directly about Dennis, because I've there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of other emails that we.
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Speaker 2: Had coming in that I'm ready to answer today.
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Speaker 3: Yes, there was absolutely a lot of comments on it yesterday, okay,
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Speaker 3: And Doug said that he was just very happy that
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Speaker 3: you were able to have him on the show. You
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Speaker 3: gave him a chance to speak his voice and speak
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Speaker 3: his mind, and that's very important. You know, you already
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Speaker 3: covered a lot of this stuff. But a lot of
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Speaker 3: the sentiment from the KFAB listeners that I've seen is
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Speaker 3: when it comes to spewing these facts, they were thinking, maybe, Gene,
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Speaker 3: you should have been there to rebuttal it, because how
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Speaker 3: can you stand for somebody to talk about all these
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Speaker 3: facts and not hold them accountable on it?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: And you know that's what that's what you all will do.
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Speaker 1: You know, My show again is to let people sound off.
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Speaker 1: We weren't fact checking, but I just didn't you have
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Speaker 1: to make a decision while you're on the air. But
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to debate him.
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Speaker 2: I didn't.
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Speaker 1: I really didn't want to be on the air for
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Speaker 1: another thirty minutes debating him. People were listening, they could
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Speaker 1: take it for what it's worth. Like I said, there
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Speaker 1: was a lot I didn't agree with all of these
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Speaker 1: statistics and facts that he was talking about. We weren't
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Speaker 1: fact checking them either, and anybody could twist what they
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Speaker 1: consider the facts and make it suit what their agenda is.
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Speaker 2: And so I'd be.
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Speaker 1: Happy to listen to you all and hear what you
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Speaker 1: have to say about it, and I'll answer you today.
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Speaker 1: But again, the the what he was talking about about,
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Speaker 1: you know, from the what's going on in Iran for instance.
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Speaker 1: One of the things he did say is he used
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Speaker 1: the term that I did ask him about. He said,
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Speaker 1: and now we are going to give them three hundred billion. No,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to give them three hundred billion dollars.
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Speaker 1: They're going to get nothing if they don't comply with
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Speaker 1: what is in the agreement. It sounds like even this
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Speaker 1: morning that there's problems already with the agreement and that
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Speaker 1: money is not coming from the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: So once again, you could say whatever you want, but
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Speaker 1: it's not always going to be the truth. But I
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Speaker 1: was letting him say what he wanted to say. I
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Speaker 1: got a note from him afterwards saying I'd love to
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Speaker 1: do it again, and that's probably not going to happen
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Speaker 1: on my show, but I wanted to give him the chance.
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Speaker 2: To do that.
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Speaker 3: The one thing I did want to bring up before
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Speaker 3: I have a few more questions, And actually I got
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Speaker 3: some really good questions about fireworks in the city of
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Speaker 3: Omaha coming up here on the queue. But the one
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Speaker 3: thing that people were really having a hard time with
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Speaker 3: was when he made his comment about the stock market.
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Speaker 3: You said, you know, the stock market is hitting highs
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Speaker 3: after week after week after week, price of gas is
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Speaker 3: coming down. And I'm quoting him, and I hope I
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Speaker 3: get this correct. But he said ninety percent of the
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Speaker 3: stock market, it is controlled by ten percent of the
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Speaker 3: of the population, right, And a lot of listeners, a
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Speaker 3: lot of you guys out there did not like that.
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Speaker 3: What about the retirement, what about there's so many different methods,
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Speaker 3: you know roth IRA's, you know four oh one k's.
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Speaker 3: All of this is in the stock market. You don't
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Speaker 3: have to go buy stocks of Apple or b Berkshire
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Speaker 3: happening absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, you could twist anything and make it
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Speaker 1: fit what your agenda is.
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Speaker 2: But again I was letting him sound off. He sounded off.
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Speaker 2: That's it for us, Ran.
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Speaker 1: If you have any other emails that are coming in
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Speaker 1: today with comments about that, we'll take those and we'll
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Speaker 1: discuss those. But my point was not. I didn't want
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Speaker 1: a debating yesterday. I didn't feel like that was my
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Speaker 1: role to sit here in debating. Plus he was on
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Speaker 1: for thirty minutes. Yeah, that's plenty of time.
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Speaker 2: That was plenty.
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Speaker 3: That's got a recurring question here, Jean, about cleaning the streets.
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Speaker 3: It says, this one comes from Timothy Gene. I've noticed
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Speaker 3: that the streets have not been cleaned this spring, and
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Speaker 3: so far this summer they look bad. Lots of debris
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Speaker 3: along the curbs. He went on to say, when I
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Speaker 3: had oversight of Omaha Police Department tow contracts, it was
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Speaker 3: in the contract that the tow driver has to clean
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Speaker 3: up debris from the accident scene. Has this changed broken
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Speaker 3: glass and carterbris in the intersections? Tell us a little
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Speaker 3: bit about that, Gene.
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Speaker 2: Well spring.
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Speaker 1: We sweep the streets and clean the streets in the spring,
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Speaker 1: and that always starts in late March, and it wraps
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Speaker 1: up in early May, and then the fall sweep starts
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Speaker 1: after Independence Day, so it starts after July fourth. The
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Speaker 1: arterials and the business districts are swept more often, though
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Speaker 1: roughly every month. Is what is happening. So nothing has
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Speaker 1: changed that I am aware of. This is what has
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Speaker 1: happened typically in the past. This is done by public works.
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Speaker 1: Alls I can say is if you do feel like
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Speaker 1: that there are certain streets that need more attention, I
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Speaker 1: will go back to the same thing I say all
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Speaker 1: the time. You can call your city council member that
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Speaker 1: represents your district, or you can call the Mayor's hotline
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Speaker 1: at four four four five five five five, and we'll
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Speaker 1: see if they respond. I always wanted my hotline to
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Speaker 1: respond to problem areas. Keep in mind one area that
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Speaker 1: I do see a lot of litter on frequently are
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Speaker 1: the ramps, the exit ramps and the on ramps to
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Speaker 1: the interstates, and those are cleaned and controlled by the
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Speaker 1: Department of Transportation, not the City of Omaha.
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Speaker 2: And so just keep that in mind too.
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Speaker 1: Along the interstate too, along I eighty six, eighty four eighty,
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Speaker 1: I hear a lot, well, there's trash along the side
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Speaker 1: of the interstate. That is the state of Nebraska. We
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Speaker 1: usually have a really good relationship with the State of
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Speaker 1: Nebraska too, and they usually respond to us real quickly,
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Speaker 1: and so if we have issues on the ramps, then
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Speaker 1: we usually can call the state and they'll be on
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Speaker 1: take care of it right away. But that's typical what
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Speaker 1: has happened in the past with the City of Omaha.
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Speaker 2: So we do clean and sweep the streets. Well, you
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Speaker 2: brought up the fourth of July, so I think this
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Speaker 2: is a great segue. Marilyn.
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Speaker 3: Thanks for calling into the KFAB comment line. You are
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Speaker 3: live with Jean Stoutherton.
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Speaker 4: I'd like to say you were an excellent mayor, and
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Speaker 4: I am still angry with the electorate who did not
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Speaker 4: turn out to vote for you.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you for seeing that.
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Speaker 1: You know, twenty eight percent voter turnout is not good
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Speaker 1: and it's not representative of the people.
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Speaker 4: No, it's not. But fireworks, these gigantic tents are already
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Speaker 4: going up all over the city. My neighborhood, fireworks are
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Speaker 4: already active. I live in the Benson neighborhood. Is there
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Speaker 4: anything that we can do to pressure the city council
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Speaker 4: to change the fireworks rules and regulations so that it's
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Speaker 4: not this ongoing nightmare for people that are, you know,
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Speaker 4: truly disturbed by them.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you brought that up.
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Speaker 1: Now we did have I mean, the fireworks ordinance was
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Speaker 1: passed while I was down at city Hall. It has
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Speaker 1: been changed because it was as soon as these tents
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Speaker 1: start selling and they are given permits to sell, and
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Speaker 1: we have reduced the number of tents that are allowed
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Speaker 1: to but as soon as they were allowed to start selling,
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Speaker 1: they were all allowed to start using. That has been
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Speaker 1: changed and the days that the fireworks are allowed actually
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Speaker 1: by law to be shot off has been changed and
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Speaker 1: they are much less than they used to be. And
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Speaker 1: you know, I need to do a little research there
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Speaker 1: because that is something that just skipped my mind about
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Speaker 1: when those days actually are and it's over the fourth
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Speaker 1: of July and at midnight I think it's two am
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Speaker 1: on the fourth of July, it should be over. And
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Speaker 1: then you could do it again on New Year's Eve,
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Speaker 1: just on New Year's Eve. But here's the problem with
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Speaker 1: that is Number one, these nonprofits want these tests, these
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Speaker 1: tents and to sell fireworks, and sometimes they make a
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Speaker 1: lot of money selling these fireworks. When we tried to
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Speaker 1: reduce the number of tents, these nonprofits really really got
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Speaker 1: upset about it, and so they still allow a certain
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Speaker 1: number to put tents up and to sell the fireworks.
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Speaker 2: The issue is to enforce it.
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Speaker 1: You know, we do have a law that says when
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Speaker 1: you can let the fireworks off. And it's not when
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Speaker 1: they first begin and to sell it that it is
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Speaker 1: in state or city law.
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Speaker 2: It's an ordinance.
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Speaker 1: But it's how can we get these enforced? Because people
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Speaker 1: will call the Omaha Police Department. They'll call nine one
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Speaker 1: one and they will say, my neighbor is letting off fireworks.
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Speaker 1: Half the time by the time OPD gets there, they're
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Speaker 1: done with it. It's very hard to enforce, but the
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Speaker 1: police are out. You can call nine one one. There
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Speaker 1: is a non emergency number that you can also call
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Speaker 1: and report if people are not abiding by what the
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Speaker 1: law is. I you know, before the fourth of July,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to get back with you and I'm going
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Speaker 1: to tell you exactly what those days are that you
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Speaker 1: can let those fireworks off, and I will tell you
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Speaker 1: exactly how many tents are allowed by the city ordinance.
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Speaker 1: But once again, you can really contact your city council member.
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Speaker 1: You can contact the Mayor's hotline and that's you know,
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Speaker 1: that's a way to communicate and hopefully the Mayor's hotline.
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Speaker 2: Is still responsive. Thank you for the call, Marilyn. We
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Speaker 2: appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: I also got an email from Doug here and it's
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Speaker 3: kind of a fun idea, he says, can we agree
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Speaker 3: that fireworks should start on Friday.
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Speaker 2: And end on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: I'm glad we lifted the fireworks ban, but every year
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Speaker 3: needs to Every year we need to adjust the ban
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Speaker 3: depending on where the holiday falls. This fourth is a Saturday,
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Speaker 3: so I get celebrating on Friday to Sunday.
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Speaker 2: But that's it. It shouldn't be before or after.
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Speaker 3: And then he went on to say, I think it
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Speaker 3: would be cool if the radio station could coordinate a
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Speaker 3: Fourth of July time where we all launch at once
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Speaker 3: across the community.
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Speaker 2: Oh, in Unison.
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Speaker 3: In Unison, that sounds not a bad idea. Well, twelve
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Speaker 3: seconds behind.
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Speaker 2: You know that the yeah area goo.
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Speaker 1: And you know the city of Omaha has adopted, actually
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Speaker 1: what the state of Nebraska has adopted. Do you remember
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Speaker 1: the one thing that the state deemed illegal and so
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Speaker 1: did the City of Omaha. Where those little parachutes that
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Speaker 1: went up with the fire in him.
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Speaker 2: Oh, the little army guys that had the parachutes on them.
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Speaker 2: But they, I mean, they're really beautiful.
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Speaker 1: If you do this, you let them all off at once,
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Speaker 1: and you got all these little parachutes flying in the
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Speaker 1: air with fire, but they're dangerous and they were landing
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Speaker 1: on people's roofs, and they were catching roofs on fire
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Speaker 1: and trees on fire. So those are not legal, and
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Speaker 1: people got very mad when they did that. They would
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Speaker 1: have fire on them on the way down. They have
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Speaker 1: fire on them that lifts these little parachutes up. Yeah huh,
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Speaker 1: And they would land on people's roofs. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of people with wood roofs still would shake roofs in Omaha,
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Speaker 1: and so those were deemed dangerous. Those are not allowed
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Speaker 1: here either. There are certain fireworks that are there's certain
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Speaker 1: fireworks that are not. But we can I can guide
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Speaker 1: you and we will do that on Monday to the
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Speaker 1: proper place, in the proper web page to see what
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Speaker 1: are legal and what aren't legal.
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Speaker 2: But what can you do?
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Speaker 1: You can just go right over to Iowa and you
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Speaker 1: can buy all you want. And that's why we started
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Speaker 1: allowing the sale of fireworks in the city of Omaha,
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Speaker 1: because if we didn't, they would just go over to
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Speaker 1: Iowa and buy them, and then we couldn't regulate it
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Speaker 1: at all.
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Speaker 3: I see switching topics here. We have Liz on the
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Speaker 3: phone line. Liz, thanks for calling the show You're Live
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Speaker 3: with Jean Stouth. You're on KFAB.
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Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 5: Yes, my name is Liz and I'm an Omaha native
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Speaker 5: and when I was a child. I want to talk
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Speaker 5: about this because when I was a child, we would
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Speaker 5: take a city bus to South Omahall we take it
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Speaker 5: to downtown and we would pay our own fare, And
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Speaker 5: there were many times when I tried to get on
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Speaker 5: the bus and it was so full that the bus
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Speaker 5: driver would say, you're not to catch the next one.
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Speaker 5: Now I look at the city buses now, and we
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Speaker 5: spend a lot of money on that West Roads renovation.
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Speaker 5: We have double double wide buses and as I say
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Speaker 5: to everyone, they're double empty. And now the windows have
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Speaker 5: been they put advertising on it. I personally think it's
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Speaker 5: to hide that there's hardly anybody on the buses. And
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Speaker 5: I've heard that, really you don't many of the bus
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Speaker 5: tickets have been big. They give them to people. I mean,
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Speaker 5: we don't even pay for that anymore. So I was
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Speaker 5: wondering why we cannot somehow use city buses, maybe the
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Speaker 5: ops or the school district instead of using the yellow buses,
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Speaker 5: which a lot of times aren't full. Either could use
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Speaker 5: the kids, could take the city bus if they could,
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Speaker 5: if they could walk a couple blocks or whatever, at
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Speaker 5: least the high schoolers to catch a city bus to
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Speaker 5: go on. Because we're trying to teach children public transportation,
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Speaker 5: how do we do that When we pick them up
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Speaker 5: in their neighborhood and drive them. They never are even
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Speaker 5: exposed or even interested in it. So that's I was
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Speaker 5: always wondering. In my opinion, you could almost send minivans
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Speaker 5: instead of these huge buses.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm glad you brought all of that up. Keep
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Speaker 1: in mind that the bus system in Omaha is run
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Speaker 1: by Metro Transit. It is not run by the City
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Speaker 1: of Omaha. They have their own levying authority. So when
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Speaker 1: you look at your property tax bill, you will see
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Speaker 1: a section that says Metro Transit what you and you
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Speaker 1: said they redid the West Roads. What you are talking
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Speaker 1: about is the bus rapid transit system, which is the
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Speaker 1: bigger articulated buses. That there is a station that's the
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Speaker 1: west terminus at West Roads. There's a station there at
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Speaker 1: West Roads and it goes from Eighth Street downtown all
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Speaker 1: the way to the West Roads and back again. Now
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Speaker 1: having said that that Metro Transit runs it. Metro Transit
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Speaker 1: will provide numbers for you. And although you said that
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Speaker 1: they are half empty, are not being used, that is
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Speaker 1: not actually true. The use of the Metro Transit buses
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Speaker 1: and the bus rapid transit system is really quite large
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Speaker 1: and there are people that depend on it. The ridership
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Speaker 1: is in the millions every year of those who ride
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Speaker 1: in our bus system, and that shows that there are
17:53
Speaker 1: people that absolutely depend on that for their form of
17:57
Speaker 1: public transportation. Now, another saying, you said, let the maybe
18:01
Speaker 1: let the kids in the school districts ride these buses
18:05
Speaker 1: from Metro Transit. Now, another thing I want you to
18:07
Speaker 1: keep in mind is the school districts also have their
18:11
Speaker 1: own leving authority, and the school districts take up about
18:16
Speaker 1: sixty two percent of your total tax bill. They pay
18:20
Speaker 1: for their buses through that that part of what the
18:25
Speaker 1: taxing that they do to the citizens the school districts do.
18:29
Speaker 1: There is state law that requires school districts to provide
18:33
Speaker 1: transportation school districts, not the public buses, but school districts
18:39
Speaker 1: to provide transportation for students that live within a certain
18:43
Speaker 1: district or certain distance from the schools that they go to.
18:49
Speaker 1: You know, you may say, it's not that as important
18:51
Speaker 1: in Omaha. But look in these rural communities, these kids
18:55
Speaker 1: aren't going to be walking to school and they're not
18:57
Speaker 1: going to be taken a city bus. So you're talking
19:00
Speaker 1: and specifically you were talking about Omaha, but I would
19:04
Speaker 1: just say the bus rapid transit system, the bus system
19:07
Speaker 1: Metro Transit in Omaha run by Metro Transit. They have
19:11
Speaker 1: their own elected board. They make the decisions for that.
19:15
Speaker 1: But that is part of your property tax bill, and
19:18
Speaker 1: there are many many people ridership in the millions every
19:21
Speaker 1: year that depend on that bus system. They are always
19:23
Speaker 1: looking for new routes and to make it more and
19:26
Speaker 1: more convenient for people. But the school district already charges
19:30
Speaker 1: you enough taxes and they are required by law to
19:33
Speaker 1: provide that transportation for the students. So that's part of
19:37
Speaker 1: what they are required to do.
19:41
Speaker 3: The Cafab Comment Line with your hosts of the show,
19:43
Speaker 3: Jean Stauthart, my name is Peyton Hylock. We will return
19:46
Speaker 3: very shortly here on the CAFAB comment Line after Fox News.
19:49
Speaker 2: We built this.
19:53
Speaker 1: Go and yes we did build this city. And I
20:02
Speaker 1: love talking about Omaha, love talking about the College World series.
20:06
Speaker 1: So much is happening here, Peyton, don't you love living here?
20:10
Speaker 2: I love it, you know.
20:11
Speaker 1: I always tell this story that when I first came
20:15
Speaker 1: here thirty three years ago, in nineteen ninety three, I
20:18
Speaker 1: walk off this plane in April I left Houston Hobby
20:21
Speaker 1: and it's always like at least one hundred and thirty
20:23
Speaker 1: degrees there.
20:24
Speaker 2: I have sandals and shorts on.
20:26
Speaker 1: I get off the plane at Epley and it's twenty
20:28
Speaker 1: degrees and it says snowstorm. And I'm thinking, what in
20:31
Speaker 1: the world is going on with this city? And you know,
20:34
Speaker 1: by that evening, that very evening, I fell in love
20:37
Speaker 1: with Omaha and I've loved it ever since. I love
20:39
Speaker 1: living here, so I hope you all do too. We
20:41
Speaker 1: got a lot to be proud of. And you know,
20:44
Speaker 1: we'll keep on talking about Omaha too.
20:47
Speaker 2: It's so incredible.
20:48
Speaker 3: And one thing that we had a question of, you said,
20:51
Speaker 3: what's going on with all those flying flames and parachute guys?
20:55
Speaker 3: And people are respawning to me saying they are Asian
21:00
Speaker 3: in Chinese Japanese lanterns, lanterns.
21:03
Speaker 2: That's right, you are right.
21:05
Speaker 1: I should you know, I should brush up on all
21:07
Speaker 1: my Fourth of July and fireworks information, which I will,
21:10
Speaker 1: but they called them lanterns, and they are beautiful, They're
21:13
Speaker 1: really pretty. And if they let them off like at
21:15
Speaker 1: an event, all at once and they're in the sky,
21:18
Speaker 1: but dangerous, yes they are.
21:20
Speaker 3: One question that we got, I believe it was earlier
21:23
Speaker 3: this week. It was in regards to the Federal Reserve,
21:27
Speaker 3: and it was less of I mean, it was a question,
21:30
Speaker 3: but it was more of just kind of contemplation generally,
21:34
Speaker 3: the question what happened to the talk about auditing Fort Knox.
21:38
Speaker 3: It feels like a few months ago people were demanding
21:40
Speaker 3: the proof of the gold. Nobody seems to talk about it.
21:44
Speaker 3: Why did the story kind of disappear? Shouldn't there be
21:47
Speaker 3: a lot of transparency with Fort Knox?
21:49
Speaker 2: Sure? And you know what I mean, I think there is.
21:52
Speaker 1: You know, like I said, I read every newspaper there's available,
21:55
Speaker 1: including the Wall Street Journal for what it's worth, every day.
21:59
Speaker 2: But you are right.
22:01
Speaker 1: I believe it was just last year in twenty twenty five,
22:04
Speaker 1: Donald Trump announced that he and DOGE chief Elon Musk
22:09
Speaker 1: would visit Fort Knox and check out the US gold reserves.
22:13
Speaker 1: And it did give a lot of media attention. And
22:17
Speaker 1: what they said, is to see if the gold is
22:20
Speaker 1: still there. And I do believe according to the US
22:24
Speaker 1: meant about half of the treasury stored gold is about
22:30
Speaker 1: five thousand tons that is still kept of gold. Five
22:34
Speaker 1: thousand tons of gold is still kept at Fort Knox.
22:38
Speaker 1: It's also called the Bullion Depository. But as far as
22:42
Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve, keep in mind that there is a
22:46
Speaker 1: new chief. Now remember Kevin Walsh.
22:50
Speaker 2: I believe it.
22:51
Speaker 1: I was gonna say Walsh Wosh is his name. He
22:53
Speaker 1: is the new chair of the Board of the Governors.
22:56
Speaker 1: He just started in May of this year and he
23:00
Speaker 1: replaced former chairge your own pal. And you know basically
23:04
Speaker 1: what the Federal Reserve does, Sorry I had to have
23:10
Speaker 1: my cough button on for a minute, is they decide
23:12
Speaker 1: what the interest rates are. And Walsh did promise to
23:16
Speaker 1: drive inflation down by lowering the interest rates. That is
23:22
Speaker 1: what he promised because when the interest rates lower, it
23:26
Speaker 1: drives inflation down and so but that has.
23:30
Speaker 2: Not been done yet.
23:31
Speaker 1: But I think that's interesting story about the gold and
23:36
Speaker 1: that is in Fort Knox. And again from the US Mint,
23:40
Speaker 1: it's that about five thousand tons of gold is still
23:42
Speaker 1: in Fort Knox. The United States officially stopped using gold
23:47
Speaker 1: to back its currency back in nineteen seventy one. So
23:50
Speaker 1: it's been a long time and it marked the end
23:52
Speaker 1: of the gold standard. And the final a break actually
23:57
Speaker 1: occurred in nineteen seventy one when President Nixon suspended the
24:01
Speaker 1: dollars convertibility into gold. And so it's been transitioned into
24:06
Speaker 1: flat currency. And so you know, prior to that, it
24:10
Speaker 1: moved away from gold in nineteen ninety or nineteen thirty
24:13
Speaker 1: three under President FDR And so we're not using the
24:16
Speaker 1: gold standard anymore. We still do have gold. I think
24:20
Speaker 1: that that was in the news of what President Trump
24:23
Speaker 1: said he and Elon Musk were going to do. I
24:25
Speaker 1: don't know if Elon Musk went with him.
24:27
Speaker 2: I don't know.
24:28
Speaker 1: I got my information when I read about it in
24:30
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal about the US Mint. From just
24:32
Speaker 1: reading about it, I know that President Trump pressed the
24:38
Speaker 1: former chief chief or chairge your own pal into lowering
24:41
Speaker 1: interest rates to lower inflation rates. And he did not
24:45
Speaker 1: do that. So we will see what Kevin Worsh did.
24:47
Speaker 1: Another thing about the Federal Reserve is it is considered
24:52
Speaker 1: the US Central Bank. That's what the Federal Reserve is considered,
24:58
Speaker 1: and The Federal Reserve was create by the Federal Reserve
25:01
Speaker 1: actback in nineteen early nineteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds, probably
25:06
Speaker 1: nineteen thirteen, and it established a monetary system that could
25:10
Speaker 1: respond effectively to the stresses in the economy. There are apparently,
25:16
Speaker 1: approximately I think there is a dozen Federal Reserve banks
25:21
Speaker 1: all around the US. There's about a dozen in the US,
25:24
Speaker 1: and Omaha, Nebraska has a Federal Reserve Bank. Just a
25:30
Speaker 1: little information here. The Omaha's Federal Reserve Bank is part
25:34
Speaker 1: of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. But we
25:37
Speaker 1: do have a Federal Reserve Bank in Omaha, and the
25:42
Speaker 1: Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank overseas branches in Omaha, Denver,
25:47
Speaker 1: and Oklahoma City.
25:48
Speaker 2: So there you go. That's what I know about the
25:50
Speaker 2: Federal Reserve. Did they did they do the audit in
25:53
Speaker 2: Fort Knox? Is the gold there gene? I don't.
25:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I just said, I'm not sure it was
25:58
Speaker 1: actually called an audit. But when I tried to read
26:02
Speaker 1: about it to get some information, because I also was was,
26:07
Speaker 1: you know, curious, because Trump announced this in twenty twenty five,
26:12
Speaker 1: if they actually did do this what they called an audit,
26:15
Speaker 1: just according to the US meant there is about five
26:19
Speaker 1: thousand tons of gold left in and kept in Fort Knox,
26:23
Speaker 1: but it is not used as the gold standard to
26:26
Speaker 1: back up our currency anymore.
26:27
Speaker 2: Would they tell us if it was not there? I
26:30
Speaker 2: would assume they would have to. I mean, that's that's
26:32
Speaker 2: full transparency.
26:33
Speaker 3: I'm a little bit that's a little bit of a
26:34
Speaker 3: conspiracy there. I'm chiming away.
26:36
Speaker 2: At well, look at you, conspiracy. Would they even tell
26:40
Speaker 2: us if it was not there? I believe they would
26:42
Speaker 2: have to. You'd have to, You'd have to, hope.
26:44
Speaker 1: So right, So now our currency is basically based on
26:46
Speaker 1: the full faith and credit the United States of America,
26:48
Speaker 1: and that's where we are now.
26:50
Speaker 3: Nancy has a good question for you. Thank you for
26:52
Speaker 3: calling the show here at KFAB. Nancy, You're live with
26:55
Speaker 3: Jeanist author.
26:56
Speaker 6: Good morning, Hi, I listened to you on my heart radio.
27:00
Speaker 6: You're my go to news channel. I run around with
27:04
Speaker 6: my radio on my back hocket everywhere I go. Circling
27:09
Speaker 6: back to fireworks. As a dog owner who has lost
27:14
Speaker 6: the pet due to fireworks, I know you were only
27:17
Speaker 6: kidding about setting them all off at once, but dogs
27:22
Speaker 6: are especially sensitive to whatever found it is the fireworks do,
27:27
Speaker 6: and unless you've got them like fied down inside, they
27:31
Speaker 6: just ammixed. So I understand everybody's weariness about all the noise,
27:35
Speaker 6: and I agree with you.
27:37
Speaker 2: You know, I had two dogs.
27:39
Speaker 1: I had won a Golden lab that I ended up
27:41
Speaker 1: having to put down last year because she had cancer.
27:44
Speaker 2: She was fourteen.
27:45
Speaker 1: But anyway, she was petrified of fireworks and she I
27:49
Speaker 1: don't know what it is with dogs, their sense of
27:52
Speaker 1: hearing is so acute, but it was like she could
27:56
Speaker 1: sense them before they started going off, and she would
27:58
Speaker 1: shake and tremble and she go hide her head under
28:01
Speaker 1: my bed, the poor thing. It was just we had
28:03
Speaker 1: to sedate her over the Fourth of July and over
28:07
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. I have another dog, Jack who's an
28:10
Speaker 1: Australian Shepherd. He's the one I called Jackenstein just because
28:14
Speaker 1: of how he's torn my house up.
28:16
Speaker 2: But it doesn't bother him at all.
28:19
Speaker 1: He could sit out on the deck and I could
28:22
Speaker 1: be watching the fireworks and he just sits there and
28:24
Speaker 1: he can hear a pin drop, So I don't I
28:27
Speaker 1: guess it's just certain animals, But I really know what
28:30
Speaker 1: you mean, and it's sad to see him, It really is.
28:32
Speaker 2: Thank you for the call, Nancy. And that kind of
28:34
Speaker 2: goes to the point too.
28:34
Speaker 3: If you don't want fireworks going off for two weeks
28:37
Speaker 3: around the fourth Jail, and they should not, and they
28:39
Speaker 3: should not, So thank you for the call, Nancy.
28:42
Speaker 2: And I'm just looking over some things here and we're
28:45
Speaker 2: going to we're gonna do a fireworks review on Monday.
28:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to come back and I'm going to
28:50
Speaker 1: get all the info that you need to know.
28:53
Speaker 2: We'll get some more there. And this is actually an
28:55
Speaker 2: interesting question.
28:56
Speaker 3: This comes from Mark, and Mark says, I would like
28:58
Speaker 3: to leave a suggestion please invite Mayor of Ralston to
29:04
Speaker 3: the show so we can explain all of the improvements
29:06
Speaker 3: happening in Ralston. Though not technically Omaha, it will affect
29:11
Speaker 3: a stretch of seventy second Street and add new options
29:14
Speaker 3: for all Omaha residents. Absolutely, and there is that El
29:17
Speaker 3: Street Bridge is under construction right now. I feel like
29:21
Speaker 3: they've been moving relatively quickly considering the scale of the project.
29:25
Speaker 3: But I know a lot of you guys out there
29:27
Speaker 3: are angry at me for saying that, because it is
29:30
Speaker 3: a pain in the butt to get through there.
29:31
Speaker 2: It is, and keep in mind that El Street bridge.
29:34
Speaker 1: L Street is a state road state in Nebraska, so
29:36
Speaker 1: any work rehabilitation on Ell Street or the bridge is
29:40
Speaker 1: being done in cooperation with a Department of Transportation. It's
29:43
Speaker 1: not a City of Omaha project. But I would love
29:47
Speaker 1: to have the mayor of Ralston on. I've known him
29:50
Speaker 1: every since I've been mayor. He's been mayor forever and
29:54
Speaker 1: you know, doing a good job. I would also like
29:56
Speaker 1: to have the new mayor of Council Bluffs. So if
29:58
Speaker 1: you happen to be listening, I'm going to call in
30:00
Speaker 1: both of you.
30:01
Speaker 3: That could be really cool to get some local mayors
30:03
Speaker 3: in on the show, just to have some conversations.
30:05
Speaker 2: It could be really cool.
30:06
Speaker 1: I think so too, because you know, when we talk
30:09
Speaker 1: about Omaha, we have to talk about the Omaha metro
30:12
Speaker 1: because what's good in the metro, it's good for all
30:15
Speaker 1: of us. That's why the Omaha Chamber went to the
30:18
Speaker 1: Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce and covers eight counties because
30:22
Speaker 1: what's good in the surrounding metro is good for.
30:25
Speaker 2: All of us. So I will absolutely do that good idea.
30:30
Speaker 3: We've talked about this a little. When I think of that, yeah,
30:32
Speaker 3: why not come on Geene.
30:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
30:35
Speaker 3: No, We've talked about this a few times this week,
30:37
Speaker 3: so I don't want to spend too much time on it, Jean,
30:40
Speaker 3: but I had to call her amber.
30:41
Speaker 2: She called in.
30:42
Speaker 3: She didn't want to be on air, but she was
30:44
Speaker 3: bringing up Mike Hilgers and the minimum wage across of
30:49
Speaker 3: fifteen dollars. And I know you have a little bit
30:51
Speaker 3: of an article there. Do you want to get into
30:53
Speaker 3: that a little bit?
30:54
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's on the front page of the World
30:55
Speaker 1: Herald this morning. But the Attorney Genner General, who is
30:59
Speaker 1: Mike Kilgers, is suing Lincoln over their wage ordinance, and
31:04
Speaker 1: he said he will issue this same opinion about what
31:08
Speaker 1: our city council is now trying to do. And remember
31:12
Speaker 1: the minimum wage set by the state is with fifteen dollars,
31:16
Speaker 1: and what the City of Omaha is trying to do
31:18
Speaker 1: is those under sixteen. There is a caveat in there
31:22
Speaker 1: that says they get thirteen fifty in the City of Omaha.
31:25
Speaker 1: Portions of the city council wants to up that for
31:28
Speaker 1: the younger kids that are working to fifteen dollars too.
31:32
Speaker 1: But Lincoln passed their ordinance that set a minimum wage
31:37
Speaker 1: different from the statewide rate earlier this year. And Hilgers
31:43
Speaker 1: did say that state law trump's local law. We all
31:47
Speaker 1: know that it does, and making a local ordinance is unconstitutional.
31:53
Speaker 1: And he said he shared the same opinion about the
31:55
Speaker 1: similar ordinance that Omaha City Council is considering. And he said,
31:59
Speaker 1: the question question is whether the City of Omaha, and
32:02
Speaker 1: obviously the same for the City of Omaha, can operate
32:05
Speaker 1: as a super legislature and modify laws that the state
32:10
Speaker 1: legislature passes on state wide issues. And his comment was,
32:15
Speaker 1: they can't, but they're trying anyway. And you know, when
32:18
Speaker 1: we talked about what the Danny Bagley, who's president of
32:22
Speaker 1: the city council, you know Danny Bagley will very proudly
32:25
Speaker 1: openly say the union guy. He says that a lot
32:29
Speaker 1: because he is represents a lot of the unions. He's
32:32
Speaker 1: with oppd oh or is it mud oh? Goodness sakes
32:36
Speaker 1: oppd And he is doing this is his ordinance that
32:41
Speaker 1: he is trying to push through that sets the minimum
32:43
Speaker 1: wage at fifteen dollars for most workers. Now, having that
32:47
Speaker 1: in mind, the Attorney General will issue his opinion, he
32:50
Speaker 1: will opine on that, and he will say.
32:53
Speaker 2: It cannot be done.
32:54
Speaker 1: And does the City of Omaha want to get sued
32:57
Speaker 1: over this ordinance like the City of Lincoln is, and
33:00
Speaker 1: then the City of Omaha has to pay for fighting
33:04
Speaker 1: this lawsuit. I don't think we do, so I hope
33:07
Speaker 1: the city council reconsiders what they are trying to do.
33:12
Speaker 1: I know some of the city council members are totally
33:14
Speaker 1: against it, and the conversations that I've had with them
33:17
Speaker 1: say that they feel like it is unconstitutional. We did
33:21
Speaker 1: have a caller a while back that asks if this
33:24
Speaker 1: did happen, would it affect labor negotiations in the City
33:29
Speaker 1: of Omaha, And I said it wouldn't because, number one,
33:32
Speaker 1: we don't hire kids that young, except yes we do
33:35
Speaker 1: in the summer we do. We do for the lifeguards
33:37
Speaker 1: and for a lot of the summer camps, yes we do.
33:41
Speaker 1: But as far as labor negotiations, we don't hire anybody
33:44
Speaker 1: at minimum wage, so it really.
33:46
Speaker 2: Is not going to affect that at all.
33:47
Speaker 3: Your host of the show, Jean's author, My name is
33:49
Speaker 3: Peyton Hilock. Wrapping up our last segment here on a Friday,
33:53
Speaker 3: and I know, Gene, you got some things we want
33:55
Speaker 3: to talk about in preparation for Father's Day. Let's get
33:58
Speaker 3: one call in here, Adam, thanks for calling the show.
34:00
Speaker 3: You are live with Jean's author here on news radio
34:02
Speaker 3: eleven ten kfab.
34:06
Speaker 4: Hello, thanks for.
34:07
Speaker 7: Taking my call.
34:08
Speaker 1: I was just calling you guys.
34:09
Speaker 7: Are talking about this potential lawsuit with the city with
34:12
Speaker 7: the state was the minimum wage? As calling because I
34:16
Speaker 7: believe there was there's precedent for this when Nebraska passed
34:20
Speaker 7: their open carry law. I know Omaha had a handgun
34:24
Speaker 7: registration and I think the chief was fighting pretty hard
34:27
Speaker 7: to keep that.
34:28
Speaker 2: But the state came in and said.
34:30
Speaker 7: Hey, we're you know, we passed this law. You got
34:32
Speaker 7: to follow this. And was there a threat of a lawsuit?
34:35
Speaker 7: I can't remember exactly, but I think this precedent for this, well, it's.
34:39
Speaker 1: It's it's a different, totally different issue, the open carry
34:43
Speaker 1: law that was passed by the state of Nebraska. You know,
34:47
Speaker 1: I tried when I was first mayor, and everybody knows
34:50
Speaker 1: that I had my permit to carry. I took the
34:54
Speaker 1: classes and I am a very responsible gun owner, but
34:58
Speaker 1: I thought it was very read dundant that you get
35:01
Speaker 1: a permit to purchase a gun a firearm with the
35:04
Speaker 1: Sheriff's department, and then the City of Omaha required you
35:09
Speaker 1: to go down to the City of Omaha to the
35:11
Speaker 1: police department and register your gun. And I felt number
35:15
Speaker 1: one was this was redundant, and number two it was
35:20
Speaker 1: it was, in my opinion, nobody's business if you had
35:23
Speaker 1: a gun. Now, when the open carry was passed by
35:26
Speaker 1: the legislature, it does say it was it was vague
35:30
Speaker 1: enough in the in the legislative bill that said any
35:34
Speaker 1: city owned our city least properly could regulate if when
35:41
Speaker 1: the open carry was passed, but they could regulate and
35:44
Speaker 1: stop the carry of firearms in city owned our city
35:48
Speaker 1: leased property. We felt like that the Chief schmater really
35:52
Speaker 1: asked that we could limit that in the City of
35:56
Speaker 1: Omaha with our public parks, with our libraries, and so
35:59
Speaker 1: we we temporarily put up signs in our parks and
36:03
Speaker 1: with our libraries, for example, that you are not permitted
36:06
Speaker 1: to carry.
36:07
Speaker 2: That turned into.
36:09
Speaker 1: A lawsuit, and people said, no, no, no, no, no,
36:12
Speaker 1: you are restricting what the state had already passed. The
36:16
Speaker 1: state said it is open carry. Although I think the
36:19
Speaker 1: state law allowed everything the city was doing with the
36:23
Speaker 1: restricting in the parks and the libraries, for example. But
36:26
Speaker 1: Chi Shmader really felt like that gave the Omaha Police
36:29
Speaker 1: Department an additional tool that they could use for certain people,
36:35
Speaker 1: young people, gang members, whatever, that were carrying guns around.
36:38
Speaker 1: It gave them a reason to stop them and to
36:42
Speaker 1: arrest them for doing that. When we got the messages
36:46
Speaker 1: from the state about that, they felt like that was
36:49
Speaker 1: not the intent of the state law. I had all
36:53
Speaker 1: of those signs that were in the parks and in
36:55
Speaker 1: the libraries and in our community centers taken down. I mean,
37:00
Speaker 1: it is open carry in the city of Omaha, and
37:03
Speaker 1: no way was I trying to take legal, responsible gun
37:06
Speaker 1: owners rights away from them. I'm a gun owner, and
37:10
Speaker 1: I know how to handle a gun, and I know
37:12
Speaker 1: how to shoot a gun too, and so that lawsuit
37:16
Speaker 1: really never happened.
37:17
Speaker 3: Do not mess with mean, Gene. Oh yeah's only a
37:21
Speaker 3: little bit, Jeene. But we have Father's Day this weekend.
37:23
Speaker 3: It's on Friday, and I always enjoy celebrating Father's Day
37:28
Speaker 3: with my dad absolutely.
37:30
Speaker 2: And you know, also this today is June teenth.
37:34
Speaker 1: I have to say that first June teenth is the
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Speaker 1: celebration June nineteenth. It is a national holiday, and it
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Speaker 1: is the celebration of the abolishment of slavery in the
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Speaker 1: United States of America, and they with what the city
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Speaker 1: of Omaha does. They do not sponsor a parade, but
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Speaker 1: there generally is a parade that does happen up in
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Speaker 1: North Omaha. It happened last week and it should have
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Speaker 1: happened last weekend, and it was canceled b because of rain,
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Speaker 1: and so I think that they are going to reschedule that.
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Speaker 1: But it is Father's Day this weekend, and I want
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Speaker 1: to say Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there,
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Speaker 1: and I want to say a little bit about my dad.
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Speaker 1: My dad, his name was Don Wolf. He was born, raised,
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Speaker 1: grew up in Wood River, Illinois. It's a refinery town.
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Speaker 1: Wood River was built by standard oil.
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Speaker 2: He grew up.
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Speaker 1: Listened to this story of my dad. He grew up
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Speaker 1: on First Street in Wood River, like many at that time,
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Speaker 1: he went into the navy, came back, married my mom,
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Speaker 1: built a house on Second Street, and he lived born
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Speaker 1: and raised on First Street. Built a house on Second Street,
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Speaker 1: and that's where he died in the house that he built.
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Speaker 1: Him and my grandpa built this house for eight thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: They built the house back then that's a house I
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Speaker 1: grew up in and he lived there until he died
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Speaker 1: when he was almost ninety.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that something?
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Speaker 1: And you know what, my dad was a just a
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Speaker 1: high school educated, didn't go to college. He put himself
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Speaker 1: through a lot of correspondence school in chemical engineering so
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Speaker 1: he could get a better job at Standard Oil. He
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Speaker 1: was exposed to asbestos at Standard Oil. Died of mesothelioma
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Speaker 1: of cancer because of that. But my dad was great,
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, he was funny, he was great,
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Speaker 1: He was athletic, he was a swimmer. He even went
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Speaker 1: to the Senior Olympics. And I'm very proud of what
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Speaker 1: my dad accomplished. You know, it just shows you can
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Speaker 1: still be a great person and a great American and
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Speaker 1: live your life and be very very happy and have
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Speaker 1: a full life. And you know, the same town that
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Speaker 1: he grew up in and Standard Oil, he was a
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Speaker 1: very blue collar worker, worked as an operator, started out
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Speaker 1: probably minimum wage, but that's where he lived and he
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Speaker 1: loved Wood River and that's where he died. So my
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Speaker 1: dad died in twenty fourteen, and you know, I think
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Speaker 1: about him every day. So happy Father's Day, Don Wolfe,
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Speaker 1: and happy Father's Day to all of you dads out there,
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Speaker 1: I hope you have a great day.
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Speaker 2: And that's it for us today. That is we're getting
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Speaker 2: close Gene.
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Speaker 3: One thing that I did want to say, I'm wearing
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Speaker 3: my United States soccer jersey today.
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Speaker 1: Oh I shouldn't have us. Hey, Peyton is red, white
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Speaker 1: and blue today. And we know that USA is playing
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Speaker 1: today and they are playing Australia today in Seattle, and boy,
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Speaker 1: we hope they shine like they did when they played
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Speaker 1: the other day.
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Speaker 2: Mate. Yes, that was an awesome game.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm looking forward to it in Seattle at two
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Speaker 3: o'clock this afternoon.
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Speaker 2: Doing the Chris Baker Show.
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Speaker 3: I might I'm gonna have one and a half eyes
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Speaker 3: on the board, in half an eye on the TV.
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Speaker 3: But I'm gonna be focused. Don't you worry about that.
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Speaker 3: But a lot of good things coming this weekend. It's
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Speaker 3: Father's Day weekend. I'm going down to the World Cup
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Speaker 3: in Kansas City tomorrow. Oh wow, So I'm looking forward
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Speaker 3: to that. It's going to be a blast that I.
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Speaker 2: Would love to do that, but good luck with that.
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Speaker 2: That'll be fun.
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Speaker 1: I will be at the College World Series on Saturday
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Speaker 1: and Sunday, Sunday may be our last day. If somebody
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Speaker 1: gets one of those two gets two wins. If they
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Speaker 1: do not, or if they're rained out, there will be
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Speaker 1: a Monday game. Two Monday on the show, we're going
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Speaker 1: to talk about fireworks and I'm going to have my
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Speaker 1: act together a little bit better. I'm going to give
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Speaker 1: you a lot of information about fireworks. I want to
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Speaker 1: clarify that the raising the minimum wage is only a
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Speaker 1: few of the Omaha City Council members. It's not all
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Speaker 1: of them that want to do this or agree with that.
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Speaker 1: So I want to make sure I clarify that. And
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Speaker 1: then Monday, we're going to have a good guest. Jay
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Speaker 1: Lund will be with us and his company is Greenslaight
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Speaker 1: and Jay Lunn is the one that developed the Blackstone
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Speaker 1: District and he's the one that developed the Cottonwood Hotel
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Speaker 1: and he's got a lot to talk about what he
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Speaker 1: and his father, who is John Lutt, has done for
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Speaker 1: the city of Omaha. So he will be with us Monday.
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Speaker 1: But thank you all for spending this hour with us.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. We'd love for you to join us
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Speaker 1: again on Monday. And I am Jean Stothard and this
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Speaker 1: is eleven ten afab