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IA GOV Candidate Zach Lahn · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: Peyton Hilock, the producer, is also here. He's at the soundboard.
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Speaker 1: He's ready to go this morning. And thank you all
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Speaker 1: for being with us today. What a beautiful day it
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Speaker 1: is out there today. Boy did we luck out for
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Speaker 1: the first day of the College World Series. Didn't We?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely beautiful day today. And I bet you these people
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Speaker 1: that have been here for the first time are saying, Wow,
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Speaker 1: I didn't know the weather was so great and O maha,
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Speaker 1: but just wait, we'll have like I said, we'll have storms,
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Speaker 1: we know we will. But we really want to hear
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Speaker 1: from you. We want to get your feedback. We want
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Speaker 1: to hear your comments, concerns, questions, complaints, really anything goes
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Speaker 1: and we won't back away from anything. We'll talk city, state, national,
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Speaker 1: the world, and we will have great guests and you're
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Speaker 1: going to hear a lot of opinions from me. But
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Speaker 1: it is your chance to speak up and sound off.
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Speaker 1: So you can send your emails to comment at kaffeb
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Speaker 1: two five five eight eleven ten. We are so happy
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Speaker 1: that you are with us, and I wanted to get
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Speaker 1: back dive right in if I could right away into
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Speaker 1: some follow up from some calls and questions and emails
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Speaker 1: we had yesterday about the College World Series, and basically
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Speaker 1: the comments were, it is too expensive for me to go.
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Speaker 1: Now the seats are all taken by out of towners,
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Speaker 1: so people from Omaha can't go down to the ballpark
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Speaker 1: and enjoy it, or the tickets only available by third
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Speaker 1: party that try to sell them for a lot of money.
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Speaker 1: There was one comment that said the season ticket holders,
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Speaker 1: they are all season ticket holders, and then they get
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Speaker 1: their tickets and they don't go, and they sell them
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Speaker 1: online for some huge amount of money. So I did
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Speaker 1: a little more research into that went right to the
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Speaker 1: College World Series folks, and here is the actual facts.
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Speaker 1: So season tickets. There is about eleven four hundred of
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Speaker 1: the seats in the stadium that are sold as season tickets.
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Speaker 1: Keep in mind it's a twenty four thousand seat stadium,
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Speaker 1: so of that less than half eleven four hundred or
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Speaker 1: season ticket holders. Of those season ticket holders, sixty eight
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Speaker 1: percent are from Omaha are the Omaha area. So sixty
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Speaker 1: eight percent of that eleveny four hundred are from the
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Speaker 1: Omaha area. And many of these season tickets are generational.
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Speaker 1: They have been in families for years and years and years,
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Speaker 1: and the family still go to the game. Now, each
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Speaker 1: time a team plays that team that is playing that day,
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Speaker 1: they get seven hundred tickets each the team that is
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Speaker 1: playing that day, So that's fourteen hundred tickets that day
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Speaker 1: for just the teams that are playing in their family
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Speaker 1: and their fans. Then the next day, two more teams
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Speaker 1: are playing obviously are the next game, and then they
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Speaker 1: each get seven hundred, but then those go from team
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Speaker 1: to team to team, so that's only fourteen hundred out
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Speaker 1: of the entire stadium. Then, which happened after COVID, that
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Speaker 1: is still available, there are fifty four hundred seats in
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Speaker 1: that are reserve seats that are in the outfield. Those
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Speaker 1: go between fifteen dollars and twenty five dollars each, So
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Speaker 1: there's fifty four hundred additional seats in the outfield fifteen
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Speaker 1: dollars to twenty five dollars each. Then on the three
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Speaker 1: hundred level there are about you know, which is up top,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of people like that because you're not
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Speaker 1: sitting down closer to the field in the sun if
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Speaker 1: you're going to the day games. So on that three
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Speaker 1: hundred level and there's a great view there. There's another
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Speaker 1: three to five hundred tickets that are on sale for
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Speaker 1: between fifteen and one hundred dollars. So there's still plenty
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Speaker 1: of seats in that stadium, that twenty four hundred or
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Speaker 1: twenty four thousand seat stadium that people can buy for
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Speaker 1: fifteen dollars. So there's still a lot of very very
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Speaker 1: reasonable Now the question was do I have to go
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Speaker 1: online to that third party and they're selling them for
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Speaker 1: some are an amount of money. There is a web
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Speaker 1: page NCAA slash tickets that is in exchange and people
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Speaker 1: do sell their tickets there for whatever they want. But
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Speaker 1: what the College Rule series recommends for all of you
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Speaker 1: that want to go and want some of those good
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Speaker 1: tickets go to the stadium and go to the box office.
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Speaker 1: Because if you go to the stadium and go to
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Speaker 1: the box office, you will only pay face value. You
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Speaker 1: will not pay any more. So they're not going to
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Speaker 1: scalp the tickets at the box office. So that's what
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Speaker 1: they recommend. So there are plenty of seats in that
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Speaker 1: stadium for up from fifteen to twenty five dollars and
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Speaker 1: then up and really what the recommendations are as I
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Speaker 1: just said is if you want the tickets and you
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Speaker 1: want to pay face value rather than going online to
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Speaker 1: purchase them, go to the box office and they're available there.
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Speaker 2: And worst case scenario two, Gene, you go down to
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Speaker 2: the box office, you're maybe a gamble because they might
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Speaker 2: have some tickets or they might not right. But worst
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Speaker 2: case scenario, you're still down there in the area, there's
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Speaker 2: plenty of places you can go spend your time, enjoy
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Speaker 2: the game, the FanFest.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's plenty of things going on now. The
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Speaker 1: other thing is is, as you know, as the teams
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Speaker 1: are eliminated, and as the teams are eliminated, those tickets
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Speaker 1: that that team purchased goes back to the box office.
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Speaker 1: So more and more become available as the teams are eliminated.
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Speaker 1: So they try to make it still as available and
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Speaker 1: affordable as they possibly can. But I thought it was
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Speaker 1: very interesting and it's a good point to make that
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Speaker 1: of the eleven four hundred season tickets in that stadium,
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Speaker 1: a twenty four hundred seat stadium twenty four thousand seat stadium,
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Speaker 1: sixty eight percent of those season tickets are from Omaha
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Speaker 1: and the surrounding areas, and so a lot of Omaha.
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Speaker 1: The majority of people in that stadium are from Omaha,
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Speaker 1: are the Omaha surrounding area. So I really wanted to
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Speaker 1: share that information because I think it's interesting to know.
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Speaker 1: I have to review it. I didn't remember all those numbers,
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Speaker 1: but I wanted you all to hear that. But keep
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Speaker 1: in mind, it's the Road to Omaha statue that everybody
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Speaker 1: wants to get pictures in front of, and that every
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Speaker 1: single player talks about the Road to Omaha and they
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Speaker 1: are so thrilled to be here, teams that have never
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Speaker 1: been here before. And keep in mind again, the economic
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Speaker 1: impact to the city of Omaha is about one hundred
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Speaker 1: and forty six million dollars that will come into the
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Speaker 1: city from hotel, motel, restaurants, bars, et cetera. And then
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Speaker 1: it also provides fifteen hundred full time jobs in this
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Speaker 1: in this period of the ten day event, and the
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Speaker 1: publicity value for the three weeks that surround the College
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Speaker 1: World Series is estimated to be about two billion dollars.
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Speaker 1: And so it does a lot for Omaha, and so
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to share that information. Now let's move
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Speaker 1: on to soccer. The first game was played yesterday in
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Speaker 1: Mexico and Mexico won. I think that was a prob
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Speaker 1: because you had that Mexico jersey on yesterday, Peyton, that
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Speaker 1: was probably it, do you think so? And Shakira was
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Speaker 1: down in Mexico, and we know Shakira her hips don't lie,
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Speaker 1: her hips don't lie. Jean, No, they don't lie in it.
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Speaker 1: No fighting here we go, no fighting. Shakkira shake Cara.
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Speaker 1: I never really knew that you get danced like it?
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Speaker 1: All right, I think that's gonna be our theme far
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Speaker 1: when we talk about soccer. I'll tell you a funny story.
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Speaker 1: So I know everybody's seen Shakira dance whether he hips
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Speaker 1: don't lie. I had a total hip replacement two years ago,
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Speaker 1: and everybody would send me texas and emails and say, hey,
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Speaker 1: how's your hip, how you're feeling? And every time they would,
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Speaker 1: I would send a video of Shakira shaking her hips,
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Speaker 1: saying this is me this morning. I'm just fine, and
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Speaker 1: they would say, yeah, right, Jean. So anyway, but okay,
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Speaker 1: so Mexico won. I think we are safe to say
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Speaker 1: somebody's gonna yell at me for this, but I think
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Speaker 1: we're safe to say that Mexico might be considered our
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Speaker 1: second home team.
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Speaker 2: I would say so, yeah. I mean I'd rather vote
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Speaker 2: for Mexico than I would for Canada. Yeah, especially in soccer.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So anyway, they won yesterday, but today is
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Speaker 1: the big day because well the World Cup is officially
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Speaker 1: underway now, but first day yes game yesterday, and the
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Speaker 1: US national team plays today in Los Angeles against Paraguay
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Speaker 1: and many, many young and upcoming superstars are in the
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Speaker 1: United States play in soccer. This is the first time
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Speaker 1: we've had forty eight teams and so maybe we'll have
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Speaker 1: to go through that sometime soon and talk about because
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Speaker 1: that elimination is different this year, how you keep on
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Speaker 1: moving up and getting through and I don't know it,
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Speaker 1: and maybe we can educate ourselves. So lots of young
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Speaker 1: and upcoming superstars are going to be playing. I think
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Speaker 1: it's going to be fun to watch and we could
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Speaker 1: say go hopefully. Yes. You know.
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Speaker 2: The weird thing about some of these World Cup games
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Speaker 2: is they're going to be kind of late at night. Yes,
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Speaker 2: And I think this one, I think it starts at
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Speaker 2: eight or nine tonight, and you know, for a soccer game,
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be two hours.
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Speaker 1: That could be kind of late, but it does go.
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Speaker 1: But you know what I loved about soccer, and I'm
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Speaker 1: sure you do too as a player when I went
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Speaker 1: and saw my son play for years and years and years,
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Speaker 1: it just goes so quick. Boom boom boom. It's not
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Speaker 1: like baseball that goes on and on and on. I mean,
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Speaker 1: soccer is so quick. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I was talking to Chris Baker about it yesterday and
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Speaker 2: I was telling him the great thing about soccer is
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Speaker 2: it starts and for forty five minutes. There's no commercials
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Speaker 2: on the TV. There's no stoppage. Some might say that
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Speaker 2: it can be a little bit boring in the meantime,
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Speaker 2: but you know, oh I don't think it's boring. I
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Speaker 2: don't think so either. But it's forty five minutes uninterrupted.
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Speaker 1: Uh huh, it's so much fun. It's quick and it's
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Speaker 1: so much fun. But as of soccer mom I used
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Speaker 1: to be and my son being a goalkeeper, telling you,
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Speaker 1: I remembered, well, it was state championship Millard South lost
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Speaker 1: in a shootout and my son was the goalkeeper. Should
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Speaker 1: should games really be based on a shootout? Boy? That
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Speaker 1: just seems so unfair to me. But that's another story.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it. We'll talk about that sometime. Another thing I
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Speaker 1: wanted to follow up on two day two is there
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Speaker 1: was a question that came in or a comment that
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Speaker 1: has the City of Omaha ever considered the use of drones?
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Speaker 1: And I explained that we do have OPD does have
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Speaker 1: a drone unit. They have quite a few drone pilots.
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Speaker 1: They are based out in Bennington and that is the
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Speaker 1: airport where we keep our three helicopters Able one. They
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Speaker 1: should be kept up in North Omaha, but have much
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Speaker 1: better facilities out in Bennington. Chief Frank Peck is the
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Speaker 1: chief over the air unit, and so that's the helicopters,
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Speaker 1: but the drones follow or fall under him too under
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Speaker 1: his management. He's a great guy. But I got just
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Speaker 1: a little extra information because I thought this was interesting
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Speaker 1: and this I found out this from Chief Schmater. But
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Speaker 1: we now have nine drones that come out of pods
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Speaker 1: when a nine to one to one call comes in
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Speaker 1: and they automatically dispatch. Isn't that cool? So we have
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Speaker 1: nine different drones in the City of Omaha that when
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Speaker 1: a nine to one to one call comes in, they
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Speaker 1: automatically dispatch out of their little pods. And they go
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Speaker 1: where the scene is. We have nine that do that,
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Speaker 1: and then we probably have about twenty plus more drones
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Speaker 1: of different sizes that the City of Omaha and the
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Speaker 1: Omaha Police Department have, So that drone unit has grown
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Speaker 1: since I Mayor's office. But yeah, and I think that's
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Speaker 1: really interesting about those that automatically dispatch. That's very fascinating.
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Speaker 1: So they're on it. I mean, those drones are going
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Speaker 1: to be down. You'll see them during the College World Series.
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Speaker 1: One year, I had the opportunity to go up in
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Speaker 1: able one with Chief Peck during the College World Series
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Speaker 1: and we hovered over the stadium and that was really
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Speaker 1: cool because you know, when you're in a regular fixed
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Speaker 1: wing airplane and you stall, you're gonna crash. No good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah you're an airplane. No good, You're no down, no bueno.
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Speaker 1: So but but when you are in a helicopter, you
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Speaker 1: can hover and you just you're just there. You're just
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Speaker 1: kind of hovering over the stadium. But that was really
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Speaker 1: cool one night that he we went over the stadium
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Speaker 1: during the College World Series in able one, So that
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Speaker 1: was kind of exciting to do. And it boy, those
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Speaker 1: go quick. I mean we made it from Omaha to
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Speaker 1: Bennington in a minute or two. Yeah, very very quickly. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's really good. So besides that, we have a guest
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Speaker 1: coming on in just a few minutes after the break.
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Speaker 1: But Zach Lane. Zach Lane, we interviewed back in April,
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Speaker 1: and he was a candidate for the governor of Iowa
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Speaker 1: and he was a first time candidate. We talked to
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Speaker 1: him a little bit on the phone, but boy, he
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Speaker 1: came out ahead and there's a good chance he may
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Speaker 1: be the next governor of Iowa. So Zach is going
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Speaker 1: to be coming on pretty soon. We're going to talk
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Speaker 1: to him about his campaign and things going on. And
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Speaker 1: because his campaign was based on something that was quite different,
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Speaker 1: and he took a stance on a couple issues that
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Speaker 1: were one time I think would be unthinkable for a
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Speaker 1: Republican to do in the corn Belt, and he took
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Speaker 1: on big agg and so it'll be interesting. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: to Zac today. He's a great guy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be very interesting. You can still reach out
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Speaker 2: to us here. We got a few minutes left for
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Speaker 2: zero two, five, five, eight eleven ten. Comment at kfab
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Speaker 2: dot com. We'll hear from you. Doug sent in a
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Speaker 2: message in regards to soccer, he said, I wonder if
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Speaker 2: the interest in soccer would increase if we heavily promoted
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Speaker 2: adult leagues like a bowling league. I wish parents would
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Speaker 2: be asked to play other pairs and in head to head.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I don't know. I don't know. I guess.
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Speaker 1: I mean soccer is full speed running all the time.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure us older folks you could. I shouldn't
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Speaker 1: say that. Shoot, there are plenty that could probably have
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Speaker 1: fun playing soccer. And what good exercise that is? You know,
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Speaker 1: and you really don't well, no, it could be pretty rough.
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Speaker 1: I was going to say the chances of injury are
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Speaker 1: less than doing something like football, But no, you can
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Speaker 1: get You could hurt pretty badly playing soccer because people
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Speaker 1: run into each other, you know that paytent.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And there are plenty of adult leagues out there,
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Speaker 2: and they make the field a little bit smaller, and
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Speaker 2: they use smaller goals.
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Speaker 1: Who are not running around quiet so much smaller goals
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Speaker 1: you mean like the little kids.
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Speaker 2: No, no, not like the little kids, but they're just.
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Speaker 1: Just a little bit smaller than the regular size. I
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Speaker 1: love watching the little ones play soccer, though, by just
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Speaker 1: running circles like a big Yeah. They running this big
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Speaker 1: mass up and down the field, and they are more
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Speaker 1: concerned with what treats are going to get after the game.
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Speaker 1: One other thing I did want to mention. The other day,
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Speaker 1: we talked quite a bit about the Central Mall and
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Speaker 1: the redevelopment of that mall, which is on forty second
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Speaker 1: in Center. It is on the southeast corner of forty
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Speaker 1: second Center, the old mall that was built in nineteen
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Speaker 1: fifty five. There was a few that called in and
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Speaker 1: corrected me and said I was calling it the wrong name,
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Speaker 1: the actual I went back and forth because the actual
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Speaker 1: name is the Center or Central Mall. That is the
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Speaker 1: actual name, the Central Mall, but people have nicknamed it
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Speaker 1: the Center Mall. So it is the Central Mall, but
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Speaker 1: people nickname it the Center Mall, and I think most
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Speaker 1: people call it the Center Mall. But the actual appropriate
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Speaker 1: legal term is the Center or Central Mall. Did you
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Speaker 1: get that? I did get it. I made that confusing.
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Speaker 1: The legal name is Central Mall, that people have nicknamed
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Speaker 1: it the Center Mall because it's on Center.
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Speaker 2: Now I said it right there you go. We're going
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Speaker 2: to cut to the phone lines real quick. Adam, you
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Speaker 2: are live here with Jean Stauthor on eleven ten.
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Speaker 1: Kfab, Hi, thanks.
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Speaker 3: For taking my call. I was calling because you guys
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Speaker 3: are just talking about you're going to have Zach Lane
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Speaker 3: come on, yes, and I would one to vote for him,
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Speaker 3: had a lot of family members who also voted for him,
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Speaker 3: and I had a question for him if you relate
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Speaker 3: to him. I guess if he's listening is I just
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Speaker 3: saw that Governor Reynolds signed off Iowa's IT to a
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Speaker 3: basically offshore company in India, and I was wondering if
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Speaker 3: he would be willing to bring that back to Iowa
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Speaker 3: so we could keep Iowa's information in Iowa operated.
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Speaker 1: By Iowan's I'm glad you brought that up because I
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Speaker 1: read that last night and now it's one of the
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Speaker 1: questions that I was going to ask him today. So
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Speaker 1: I will be sure and ask him his opinion of that.
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Speaker 1: But we figure a lot of Iwanes listened to Kfab
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Speaker 1: and I know we go to Des Moines and pass
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Speaker 1: Des Moines, so I thought it would be really interesting
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Speaker 1: because of what his campaign was based on and Randy Finstra,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think people thought was going to be
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Speaker 1: the nominee and it was close, but you know, in
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Speaker 1: political campaigns, it doesn't matter how close it was, you'll
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Speaker 1: win or you'll lose. And so this was an interesting
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Speaker 1: race for us. And so we'll have him on. I'll
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Speaker 1: ask that question today.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And it's interesting because Kim Reynolds is not running
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Speaker 2: for reelection, which means she can work on this and
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Speaker 2: push it and not really face any of the consequences
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Speaker 2: of the election.
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Speaker 1: So it's just kind of interesting. Well, and I would
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Speaker 1: like to get some more information and hopefully that can
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Speaker 1: provide that of the background on why she chose to
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Speaker 1: do that. Now, I would assume it means saving money,
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Speaker 1: you know, because you're always looking at can we do
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Speaker 1: it better, more efficiently, less expensive, what can we do
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Speaker 1: to run government more efficiently? But at the same time
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Speaker 1: doing this the amount of jobs lost and things going,
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Speaker 1: Like I said to India, I mean, I thought it
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Speaker 1: was it was quite interesting. So we'll talk to her,
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Speaker 1: to him about that and see. And my guest today
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Speaker 1: is Zach Blaine. Zach, welcome to the show.
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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me on.
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Speaker 1: Jeans absolutely Zach, you were on this show. We interviewed
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Speaker 1: you in April before the primary and I thought it
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Speaker 1: was an interesting show because you are the first time
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Speaker 1: you're candidate. You took a really, really, I think once
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Speaker 1: unthinkable position for a Republican in the corn belt, and
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Speaker 1: you took on big egg and big farm and you said,
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Speaker 1: you said that big egg and big farm printed money.
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Speaker 1: This will not go on when I am governor. And
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Speaker 1: you blamed Iowa surgeon cancer in part on pesticides, where
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Speaker 1: Randy Feinstra defended the pesticides. You were in a tough race.
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Speaker 1: It was a five person primary and you came out ahead.
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Speaker 1: So number one, congratulations on that. Your message obviously was
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Speaker 1: really well well accepted with the folks from Iowa. So
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Speaker 1: congratulations with that. You describe yourself earlier as a husband,
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Speaker 1: a father, a farmer, a businessman, and you said you're
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Speaker 1: not mega, but your maha meaning make America healthy again,
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Speaker 1: which aligns with the health Secretary of Robert F. Kennedy Junior,
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Speaker 1: to make America healthy again. So let's talk about your race.
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Speaker 1: First of all, your message resonated with the voters, and
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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about what your campaign was
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Speaker 1: based on, and then what you're hearing from the voters
19:51
Speaker 1: in Iowa that got you through that primary, and now
19:54
Speaker 1: you are the Republican nominee and you just may be
19:57
Speaker 1: the next governor of Iowa.
20:00
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I think the way you just first off,
20:02
Speaker 4: thanks for the description there and understanding kind of what
20:05
Speaker 4: we went during this campaign. It was a very different
20:07
Speaker 4: outsider type of race. And I think that we've been
20:11
Speaker 4: addressing these long term systemic issues for a very long time,
20:14
Speaker 4: and politics, what I was seeing is what I would
20:17
Speaker 4: call bumper sticker politics, which is just a little thought
20:20
Speaker 4: here or there, but not digging into the deep systemic
20:22
Speaker 4: issues that we're facing as a state. And that's what
20:24
Speaker 4: our campaign, since we announced it on the front steps
20:26
Speaker 4: of my farmhouse in bell Plane, was all about. So
20:29
Speaker 4: our message is really, you know, it's not left or right.
20:32
Speaker 4: We want to keep Iowa's kids in Iowa. We want
20:34
Speaker 4: to save our family farms we've lost ten thousand in
20:37
Speaker 4: the past twenty years. We want to make iowas public
20:39
Speaker 4: education number one of the nation again, and we want
20:41
Speaker 4: to stop the cancer crisis in our state. And I
20:44
Speaker 4: think that some of the positions we did take we're
20:46
Speaker 4: not traditional Republican positions, but the people were talking about them,
20:50
Speaker 4: and I think for a very long time they've just
20:52
Speaker 4: been waiting for somebody to bring that message to the forefront.
20:55
Speaker 4: And so, you know, when it comes to this big
20:57
Speaker 4: agriculture message, you know, you know, we've been in agriculture
21:01
Speaker 4: and our family for one hundred and thirty years. I
21:03
Speaker 4: operate our family farm today, and I talked to my
21:05
Speaker 4: neighbors and my family and my friends. You cannot get
21:08
Speaker 4: through one of these conversations about the state of agriculture
21:11
Speaker 4: without talking about input costs and how the consolidation in
21:14
Speaker 4: the agriculture market has caused input costs to rise and
21:18
Speaker 4: farmers are being i would say extorted on prices, and
21:22
Speaker 4: we have to bring more competition to these markets. And
21:24
Speaker 4: I think anti trust suits are the way to go
21:26
Speaker 4: with that. But this is not a simple solution. These
21:29
Speaker 4: are long term problems that we are facing and we're
21:32
Speaker 4: going to solve.
21:33
Speaker 1: Are these issues that you have been hearing for quite
21:37
Speaker 1: a while that you have been studying and is this
21:39
Speaker 1: the reason that you wanted to run for a governor?
21:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's exactly right. You know, I had been hearing
21:47
Speaker 4: about these issues for a very long time, and I've
21:50
Speaker 4: been hearing about them from friends, neighbors, family members, and
21:53
Speaker 4: I've been watching them, you know, unfold in front of
21:56
Speaker 4: my own eyes. And so when I announced the campaign,
21:58
Speaker 4: it wasn't a campaign that was announced by as we
22:00
Speaker 4: went out and pulled these issues. We didn't go out
22:02
Speaker 4: and say, you know what, can we get voters to
22:05
Speaker 4: like us for saying? We said, we're going to talk
22:09
Speaker 4: about these deep systemic issues. And I believe there's a
22:11
Speaker 4: ground solved people that also care about them. And I
22:14
Speaker 4: think what the primary results showed was that is true,
22:17
Speaker 4: whether it's on competitive markets and agriculture, wanting to solve
22:20
Speaker 4: the cancer crisis, believing that our kids should have less medication,
22:25
Speaker 4: healthier food, all of this. I really believe that Ioland's
22:27
Speaker 4: have been waiting for this message to come to the forefront,
22:30
Speaker 4: and I think the primary prove that out absolutely.
22:33
Speaker 1: And you know, for a person me that has been
22:36
Speaker 1: in nine different campaigns, people vote for people that number one,
22:42
Speaker 1: they're likable, and number two because they want to say,
22:45
Speaker 1: what are you going to do if you are elected?
22:47
Speaker 1: That will help me, That will help my daily life,
22:50
Speaker 1: that'll make me like living in Iowa better. And obviously
22:55
Speaker 1: with what you based your campaign on, as I said before,
22:58
Speaker 1: it really resonated with the people there. They liked you
23:01
Speaker 1: and they liked what you were saying.
23:04
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I think that's that's right. But I think,
23:08
Speaker 4: you know, when you're talking about some of these issues
23:10
Speaker 4: that we've taken our eye off the ball on. You know,
23:13
Speaker 4: it's really important that we have a change in the
23:16
Speaker 4: narrative in our state. And I think that our campaign
23:18
Speaker 4: has helped bring that about. And really, what I say
23:21
Speaker 4: is that we just gave a voice to it. The
23:23
Speaker 4: people are already talking about it. I couldn't go to
23:25
Speaker 4: any town hall without having somebody afterwards to come up
23:29
Speaker 4: to me and talk to me about cancer or water
23:31
Speaker 4: quality and these issues that are affecting their families. Or
23:34
Speaker 4: when it comes to public education, I grew up just
23:36
Speaker 4: north of you and outside of Sioux City, and you know,
23:39
Speaker 4: Iowa was well known for being number one in education
23:41
Speaker 4: in the country, and we dropped twenty seven points since
23:45
Speaker 4: that time, even while we increase funding for public education
23:48
Speaker 4: by fifty percent inflation adjusted. We've got deep issues to
23:51
Speaker 4: solve here, and we can do them. And the last
23:54
Speaker 4: thing I'd say about that is they're not left or right.
23:56
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter if you're left right. You don't want
23:58
Speaker 4: your kids leaving the state. You don't want family farms
24:00
Speaker 4: dying off, you don't want our education system in the
24:03
Speaker 4: bottom half, and you definitely don't want your friends and
24:05
Speaker 4: family members getting cancer.
24:07
Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's a non partisan issue. I used to say
24:10
Speaker 1: in Omaha. You know, potholes and picking up trash and
24:13
Speaker 1: plow and snow, those aren't Democrat or Republican issues. Those
24:17
Speaker 1: are issues that affect everybody. And what you are saying
24:20
Speaker 1: and doing absolutely is resonates with people. Your opponent now
24:24
Speaker 1: is Rob san You're a Democrat. The last Democrat to
24:28
Speaker 1: win the governor of Iowa was Chet Culver back in
24:31
Speaker 1: two thousand and six. And we also know that Trump
24:34
Speaker 1: defeated Harris in Iowa. So what's your pathway to victory?
24:41
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I think the beauty of our primary campaign
24:43
Speaker 4: or our message is that you know, you know this
24:45
Speaker 4: as being involved in campaigns, Oftentimes people think they win
24:48
Speaker 4: a primary and then they need to switch their message.
24:51
Speaker 4: We don't feel we need to do that because we've
24:53
Speaker 4: been running on the same thing since the beginning and
24:55
Speaker 4: they're bipartisan issues. But I will tell you that, you know,
24:58
Speaker 4: we're facing a very well funded opponent who spent eight
25:01
Speaker 4: years campaigning from the Auditor's office and convincing a lot
25:05
Speaker 4: of moderate Republicans that he's a moderate. But we we're
25:09
Speaker 4: seeing now a lot of this coming out about whether
25:11
Speaker 4: it's illegal immigration or retribution against people in the Republican Party.
25:16
Speaker 4: We're seeing that this is a playbook that's been played
25:19
Speaker 4: across the country. Well, we can see in Virginia where
25:21
Speaker 4: span Berger ran as a moderate, yes, but then got
25:24
Speaker 4: elected and has been governing as a radical, you know,
25:27
Speaker 4: right after guns, went right after cultural issues that Republicans
25:30
Speaker 4: really care about, and this is a playbook they're trying
25:33
Speaker 4: to execute and state after state across the country, and
25:36
Speaker 4: we're just not going to let it happen in Aisle.
25:38
Speaker 4: We're going to make sure people know where Rob sand
25:40
Speaker 4: really stands on the issues and that you know, our
25:42
Speaker 4: campaign is here to tackle the long term issues and
25:46
Speaker 4: do it in such a way that you know, we're
25:47
Speaker 4: not going to leave any stone unturned, no matter what
25:50
Speaker 4: big group are entrench interests tell us we shouldn't do it,
25:53
Speaker 4: We're going to do it anyways.
25:54
Speaker 1: And what I mean, what a good approach because what
25:57
Speaker 1: you hear a lot and see a lot is people
25:59
Speaker 1: lie to get elected and then as soon as they're elected,
26:01
Speaker 1: they'll say, well, hm, I really can't do that. Let
26:04
Speaker 1: me ask you this. Kim Reynolds just announced yesterday about
26:07
Speaker 1: outsourcing the state of Iowa IT to India, and it
26:11
Speaker 1: cuts about two hundred IT jobs in Iowa. What's your
26:15
Speaker 1: thoughts on that?
26:17
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know the exact details of the
26:19
Speaker 4: of the agreement there, but I can say this that
26:22
Speaker 4: I've been very vocal about Iowa jobs. You know, if
26:25
Speaker 4: we're there is a case to be made to say
26:27
Speaker 4: that the private sector can do these things better than
26:30
Speaker 4: the government. I mean, we can see that in many
26:32
Speaker 4: aspects of life, the government isn't that efficient. As a
26:35
Speaker 4: matter of fact, often it's the opposite. But what I
26:37
Speaker 4: would say is, if we're going to let the private
26:39
Speaker 4: sector do these things, we need to have Iowa companies
26:42
Speaker 4: doing these roles, and we need to make sure they're
26:44
Speaker 4: hiring Iowa workers. I've already said in the state government
26:47
Speaker 4: and state universities in Iowa. I don't want to be
26:50
Speaker 4: hiring h one b visas anymore. Iowa kids can do
26:53
Speaker 4: those jobs, and they should do those jobs. And so
26:55
Speaker 4: as we look for efficiencies which can be gained by
26:58
Speaker 4: you know, utilizing the private We need to make sure
27:01
Speaker 4: that this is a great opportunity to help build an
27:03
Speaker 4: Iowa company. That's my personal opinion on it. I would
27:06
Speaker 4: like to find Iowa companies that do this and work
27:09
Speaker 4: with them on these contracts to help them grow to
27:12
Speaker 4: compete with these other companies that are out of state.
27:14
Speaker 4: I think we need to think about this from an
27:16
Speaker 4: Iowa first perspective, and that's really my position.
27:19
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and because government always should and does look for
27:23
Speaker 1: ways to run more efficiently and at less costs. And
27:26
Speaker 1: I'm assuming this is what Governor Reynolds was looking at.
27:29
Speaker 1: But I think the real issue is is cutting about
27:33
Speaker 1: two hundred Iowa jobs. It jobs and what that means
27:36
Speaker 1: to the entire state. So let me ask you this
27:38
Speaker 1: to your position about make America Healthy again? Does align
27:43
Speaker 1: with Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Have you ever met Kennedy?
27:49
Speaker 4: I have I have that Secretary Kennedy. I met him
27:52
Speaker 4: actually before I gotten this race, and we talked mostly
27:54
Speaker 4: about agriculture, about MAHA issues and just the importance of
27:59
Speaker 4: getting into states and pushing forward good policies.
28:03
Speaker 1: And have you talked to him since I think that
28:05
Speaker 1: would be an interesting conversation for people to hear because
28:09
Speaker 1: you know, he is pushing obviously healthier foods, of major
28:13
Speaker 1: changes to vaccines, eliminating environmental toxins. Those are all things
28:17
Speaker 1: that you have talked about.
28:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have talk since we won the primary, and
28:24
Speaker 4: I think where we align on some of these issues,
28:27
Speaker 4: on you know, vaccines, on parental choice, on making sure
28:29
Speaker 4: we have real studies, randomized, controlled, placebo based trials, on
28:34
Speaker 4: the safety and efficacy of vaccines, and make sure parents
28:36
Speaker 4: have choice. When it comes to food. You know, Iowa
28:39
Speaker 4: has the best farmland in the world. My goal is
28:42
Speaker 4: to have eighty percent of the food served in Iowa's
28:43
Speaker 4: public schools grown in the state of Iowa. That's my
28:46
Speaker 4: goal because I believe there are so many producers that
28:49
Speaker 4: are looking for new markets to try to rotate out
28:52
Speaker 4: of the normal just corn and soybean rotation to give
28:55
Speaker 4: them diversification and better stability and more income. And that's
29:00
Speaker 4: a market that we can actually help create here in
29:02
Speaker 4: the state of Iowa. So I think we align on
29:05
Speaker 4: so many of these issues, and I hope he'll end
29:07
Speaker 4: up coming out to the state of Iowa and working
29:09
Speaker 4: with us to win this race.
29:11
Speaker 1: Absolutely Now, another thing that I found was exciting. What's
29:14
Speaker 1: happened this morning, I believe, is you just announced who
29:17
Speaker 1: your lieutenant governor, your running mate would be a Derek Wolf. Yes,
29:21
Speaker 1: you announced that this morning.
29:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, and tell us about you did announced this morning?
29:24
Speaker 1: Okay, tell us about who Derek Wolf is and who
29:27
Speaker 1: will be your lieutenant governor if you win this race.
29:31
Speaker 4: Yeah. He's a fourth generation farmer and rancher, cattleman. He's
29:35
Speaker 4: got a great family. He's been in the legislature as
29:37
Speaker 4: the chair of the House Agriculture Committee, and he is
29:40
Speaker 4: somebody that's been pushing Iowa first, you know. Measures he
29:43
Speaker 4: was one of the lead voices on the right Traepair legislation.
29:46
Speaker 4: He's been pushing on, you know, making sure we're not
29:48
Speaker 4: giving tax credits to companies that are cutting jobs in
29:51
Speaker 4: the state of Iowa. You know, a real Iowa First
29:54
Speaker 4: type of platform there. And actually I think something I
29:56
Speaker 4: just mentioned, you know, when then Maha Bill was getting passed,
29:58
Speaker 4: he was he was trying to put in a provision
30:01
Speaker 4: to make sure that we're promoting Iowa based meat to
30:04
Speaker 4: end up on the plates in our public schools so
30:07
Speaker 4: our kids can be eating healthy food. That's grown right
30:09
Speaker 4: here in the state. I think we've got a great
30:12
Speaker 4: fighter in this choice. I think the people of Iowa
30:14
Speaker 4: are going to be excited about hearing him and hearing
30:18
Speaker 4: his vision for the state. But he's already been an
30:21
Speaker 4: IO first fighter, and I'm really looking forward to going
30:23
Speaker 4: on the trail with him.
30:24
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you will be very, very busy. You
30:26
Speaker 1: said your opponent, san is very well funded. Do you
30:30
Speaker 1: feel like this it's going to be a very very competitive.
30:32
Speaker 5: Race, Then it will be.
30:35
Speaker 4: It'll be a very competitive race. And you know, we
30:37
Speaker 4: are hearing an outpouring of support from, you know, the
30:41
Speaker 4: coalescing of support from you know, people in Iowa both
30:44
Speaker 4: on the political side, on the grassroots and on the
30:47
Speaker 4: donor end, people that want to make sure we keep
30:50
Speaker 4: this seat in Republican hands. But it's even more than
30:52
Speaker 4: just Republican hands. It's about a difrivision forward for the
30:56
Speaker 4: future of Iowa and building on what the Governor of
30:58
Speaker 4: Iowa has done in the LEGI You've done, and so
31:01
Speaker 4: I believe we're going to have the resources necessary to
31:03
Speaker 4: battle this and I think that it's going to be
31:06
Speaker 4: a big race. We also have the US Senate race
31:09
Speaker 4: with Ashley Hinston leaving the ticket there, I believe she
31:12
Speaker 4: has a great shot. And then we have three contested
31:14
Speaker 4: congressional races. Iowa is the center of the political map
31:17
Speaker 4: this year for better or worse, and we're going to
31:21
Speaker 4: build the resources to really win this race.
31:23
Speaker 1: Zach, who are your voters? I mean, are they those
31:27
Speaker 1: that are lower income farmers? Who's your pool that you
31:32
Speaker 1: really that are your voters? And then obviously you have
31:35
Speaker 1: to target the others, you know.
31:38
Speaker 4: I think we have a lot of brassroots support. I
31:41
Speaker 4: believe we have a lot of support in the agricultural community,
31:43
Speaker 4: especially from people who are looking to see something change
31:47
Speaker 4: in agriculture because you and I both know in my
31:50
Speaker 4: entire life I have every politician ever said we have
31:53
Speaker 4: to support farmers, we have to support farmers, but everything's
31:56
Speaker 4: got worse, and so we're looking for real change to
31:58
Speaker 4: bring competition back the markets. I think there's a contingent there.
32:02
Speaker 4: And also, you know, when we looked at the Republican primary,
32:05
Speaker 4: there's a lot of people that are predicting that we
32:07
Speaker 4: have a turnout of maybe one hundred and thirty tw
32:10
Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty thousand people. There's two hundred and
32:13
Speaker 4: thirteen thousand voters that showed up in the Republican primary.
32:15
Speaker 4: It was a huge turnout. And what we're seeing is
32:18
Speaker 4: there is a lot of young people. We have a
32:20
Speaker 4: lot of youth because we're also talking about issues like
32:23
Speaker 4: you know what's happening Council Bluffs with a multi billion
32:26
Speaker 4: dollar hedge fund buying up single family homes and renting
32:28
Speaker 4: them back to Iowa's young people, and Devoine, it's happening
32:32
Speaker 4: with Blackstone right now buying single family homes. There's an
32:35
Speaker 4: affordability crisis amongst our young people in the state end
32:39
Speaker 4: of the country, and you know, we're trying to do
32:41
Speaker 4: things to bring our kids home, to make life more affordable,
32:44
Speaker 4: income tax abatements, to go towards the downtainment on a
32:47
Speaker 4: new home if you move back home and you're in
32:49
Speaker 4: ioland or if you stay here to help start a
32:53
Speaker 4: new family and start your life. So I believe we
32:55
Speaker 4: have a broad coalition of people that are forming and
32:58
Speaker 4: it's really fun to watch.
33:00
Speaker 1: Zach Lane is with us. He is a Republican nominee
33:03
Speaker 1: for governor of Iowa. Are you going to be have
33:06
Speaker 1: a busy summer, Zach?
33:08
Speaker 4: We're going to be all over we have a campaign RV.
33:11
Speaker 4: I'm thankful I got to spend a week at the farm.
33:14
Speaker 4: I'm just at home. But now pretty soon we're going
33:16
Speaker 4: to be living on a bus again, traveling all of
33:18
Speaker 4: the state, and we look forward to seeing everybody from
33:21
Speaker 4: all corners of the state.
33:23
Speaker 1: That reminds me of Ben Sass when he first ran
33:25
Speaker 1: for US Senate. He had the Sasmobile and he was
33:30
Speaker 1: driving with his entire family all over in Nebraska all
33:33
Speaker 1: the time. Are you going to have time to come
33:35
Speaker 1: to any College World Series games? Zach?
33:38
Speaker 4: You know, I just had somebody invite me to one
33:41
Speaker 4: just yesterday or say they want me to come with him.
33:43
Speaker 4: So we'll see about that. We'll see who's going to
33:45
Speaker 4: be in there, and we'll definitely be going to some
33:47
Speaker 4: Iowa Iowa state games and the State Fair or something.
33:50
Speaker 4: We're giral looking forward too too.
33:52
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're a Hawkeye fan, aren't you.
33:55
Speaker 4: I'm a cyclone, but there you go. Don't hold that
33:57
Speaker 4: against me.
33:58
Speaker 1: Do you follow Caitlin Clark?
34:01
Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, I have for a long time. Yeah, So
34:03
Speaker 4: you got to follow the I mean there's Iowa legends
34:06
Speaker 4: and standouts and you know, we Ultimately, I'm an Iowa fan.
34:10
Speaker 4: If ioioa state of playing each other, I'm a cyclone,
34:13
Speaker 4: but I'm an IO fan.
34:14
Speaker 1: All right, let me ask you one other thing, because
34:16
Speaker 1: one thing I loved doing, but it's become a real
34:20
Speaker 1: controversial thing lately. What I've seen happen in Nebraska are
34:24
Speaker 1: town hall meetings. I love doing town hall meetings. I
34:28
Speaker 1: did over seventy when I was mayor, over twelve years
34:31
Speaker 1: and I love them. But boy, they can be a
34:34
Speaker 1: little bit testy these days. People come out, you know,
34:38
Speaker 1: angry and ready to pounce. And what do you think
34:41
Speaker 1: about townhalls? And are you going to be doing town
34:43
Speaker 1: halls in Iowa?
34:45
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, our primary we did a lot of town halls.
34:48
Speaker 4: It's actually one of my favorite parts of the campaign.
34:50
Speaker 4: You know, I do believe they can they can get testy,
34:53
Speaker 4: but if you're willing to hear people and really listen
34:56
Speaker 4: and you know, but still be straightforward and honest with them,
34:58
Speaker 4: I think they can be very good. Of course, there's
35:01
Speaker 4: always people out there that just seek to disrupt. Yeah,
35:04
Speaker 4: we've been not wanting to do that from our campaign.
35:06
Speaker 4: We really want to have a campaign about the issues.
35:09
Speaker 4: As we're trying to do. We believe we win on
35:11
Speaker 4: the issues. We've won in the primary issues, we're winning
35:13
Speaker 4: the general on the issues. But yes, we're absolutely to
35:16
Speaker 4: do in town halls. We'll probably start announcing them next week,
35:18
Speaker 4: but look forward to holding those events and would love
35:21
Speaker 4: to see you at one if when we do one
35:22
Speaker 4: in council Boss.
35:23
Speaker 1: I was going to say, I'll come to one because
35:25
Speaker 1: I loved I love doing those and I love taking
35:27
Speaker 1: part in those. Zach Lane is with us. He is
35:30
Speaker 1: the Republican nominee for the governor of the next governor
35:34
Speaker 1: governor of Iowa. Zach, we wish you really really a
35:37
Speaker 1: lot of luck and congratulations on your primary victory. We'll
35:41
Speaker 1: be watching your race. I think it's very exciting. I
35:43
Speaker 1: love the positions that you are taking and how knowledgeable
35:47
Speaker 1: you are on the issues that are facing those living
35:50
Speaker 1: in Iowa, and it sounds like you just want to
35:52
Speaker 1: make it a lot better. So good luck on the
35:54
Speaker 1: campaign trail and we'll be watching your race.
35:58
Speaker 4: Thank you, and I'll tell you I heard about your
36:01
Speaker 4: your show and getting on your show from some farmers
36:04
Speaker 4: in Western Iolis, so I got to thank them. It's
36:06
Speaker 4: been great to be on here. Twice. I really appreciate
36:08
Speaker 4: what you're doing.
36:08
Speaker 1: Well, we'll have you back. We'll have you back and
36:10
Speaker 1: closer to the campaign and during you know, during the
36:13
Speaker 1: campaign too, if you're willing to come back, need to
36:15
Speaker 1: come in the studio sometime too. That's it's it's fun
36:17
Speaker 1: doing that too. We'll do We'll do it all right,
36:20
Speaker 1: Zach Lane, Thank you, thank you for being with us.
36:25
Speaker 1: What a great candidate I think he is. I you know,
36:28
Speaker 1: what I said to him was so true that people
36:32
Speaker 1: when they decide who they're going to vote for, the
36:35
Speaker 1: question is always what are you going to do to
36:37
Speaker 1: make my life better? You know, you can talk about
36:40
Speaker 1: big developments, you can talk about things like street cars,
36:44
Speaker 1: things like that, but people want to say, if I'm
36:48
Speaker 1: going to vote for this person, I want to know
36:50
Speaker 1: how they are going to make my life better. And
36:53
Speaker 1: but he's really hit the nail on the head with
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Speaker 1: his campaign. It was it was, basically, in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: a bit of a risky stance to take, but it's
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Speaker 1: certainly resonated when you know you're taking these stances in
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Speaker 1: the corn belt and you're saying things like big egg
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Speaker 1: is making America sick. You know, he went out on
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Speaker 1: a limb. But it worked for him and good for him,
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Speaker 1: and I think he's he's a fine candidate that the
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Speaker 1: I ones have now, so watching his race. He announced
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Speaker 1: his lieutenant governor today who would be his running mate,
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Speaker 1: Derreck Wolf. And we'll be watching what goes on with
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Speaker 1: Zach Lane in Iowa. And we are back. Zach Lane
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Speaker 1: just joined us the Republican nominee for the governor of Iowa.
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Speaker 1: I really like him. I need to meet him in person.
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Speaker 1: I like what he says. And you know the thing
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Speaker 1: I really liked from being a candidate many times myself,
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Speaker 1: you could tell whatever he was saying was coming right
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Speaker 1: from his brain. He didn't have notes, he wasn't reading
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Speaker 1: a script. He was talking about what he knows and
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Speaker 1: what he wants to achieve. So good for him. What
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Speaker 1: a good campaign he ran. A couple other things I
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Speaker 1: did want to though, is guess what I emailed Denise
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Speaker 1: Powell's campaign and I asked if she would be on
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Speaker 1: my show. I told her I would give her a
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Speaker 1: very fair and respectful interview. I've had bringk Heer on
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Speaker 1: twice and so I did email Denise and guess what
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Speaker 1: I got nothing back yet? Not even a no. So
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Speaker 1: I'm still waiting. If I don't hear from Denise Powell
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Speaker 1: and her campaign by next week, I'll send another email.
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Speaker 1: But I hope she will be willing to come on
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Speaker 1: so we can talk to her about her campaign. Another
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Speaker 1: thing I wanted to mention Now we're going to go
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Speaker 1: back to the College World Series again, but I want
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Speaker 1: people to notice this when they go to the stadium,
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Speaker 1: because not everybody notices this. I hope they keep this
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Speaker 1: up next year. But over the last years when I
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Speaker 1: worked for the city, what we did with the Bob
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Speaker 1: Carrie Bridge, you got to watch the bridge at night
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Speaker 1: because what we would do because the colors of the
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Speaker 1: bridge are all controlled by a computer, and we redid
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Speaker 1: the bridge and had a lot more lights put on it.
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Speaker 1: But whatever teams are playing, we turned the bridge the
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Speaker 1: color of the teams that are playing. So take a
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Speaker 1: look at that and notice that if you're there at night,
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Speaker 1: and then after the championship game, the entire bridge is
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Speaker 1: changed to the color of the winner of the Color
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Speaker 1: Drill series. So take a look at the at the
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Speaker 1: Bob Carey Bridge while you're there at nighttime, sometimes until
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Speaker 1: it gets dark and it gets dark at nine point
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Speaker 1: thirty now, but when it really gets dark you can
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Speaker 1: really see that the bridge is the colors of the
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Speaker 1: teams that are playing, which I think was a real
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Speaker 1: cool little touch that so we did. I know, I
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Speaker 1: thought it was really fun. So but that is about
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Speaker 1: it for us. Two days.
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Speaker 2: So much going on in Omaha, so much going on.
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Speaker 2: We have just a little bit of time left.
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Speaker 1: Brett.
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Speaker 2: We'll bring you on with Jeans to author here. We
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Speaker 2: do not have too long, but Brett, welcome to Cafe B.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, Good morning, Jean, Good morning, Peyton.
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Speaker 4: I'll keep it real quick.
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Speaker 5: I know you're getting to the end. But this issue
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Speaker 5: about affordability and ticket prices over the last couple of days,
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Speaker 5: and even the gubernatorial candidate for MA Iowa spoke about it.
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Speaker 5: I just I'm imploring everybody the reason, to quote Milton Friedman,
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Speaker 5: the reason there's inflation is because there's too many dollars
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Speaker 5: chasing too few goods. So if you're upset about inflation,
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Speaker 5: which everybody should be, and you need to call your
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Speaker 5: state delegation, whether it's here in Nebraska or whether it's Iowa,
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Speaker 5: because these people in Congress are spending us into oblivion.
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Speaker 5: And I've called Bacon, I've called Smith, I've called Flood,
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Speaker 5: and even Flood's campaign message for his reelection is about
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Speaker 5: bowering costs. It's just not true. The CBO released a
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Speaker 5: report the Congressional Budget Office, which you can trust or
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Speaker 5: not trust, at the beginning of the year. We're going
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Speaker 5: to add another nineteen trillion dollars of debt in less
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Speaker 5: than ten years, and we're already forty trillion in the hole.
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Speaker 5: And there was just a report that came out Social
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Speaker 5: Security they're going to revise their insolvency day a year
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Speaker 5: earlier to twenty thirty two. So if you're going to
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Speaker 5: be upset about ticket prices at the College World Series,
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Speaker 5: if you're going to be upset about a seven dollars
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Speaker 5: box of cereal at highve then you need to call
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Speaker 5: your representatives in Congress and say quit spending the money,
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Speaker 5: because that's what's going on.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, thank you for that comment, and you are so
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Speaker 1: right with that. And when I look at what the
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Speaker 1: national debt is, it is mind boggling. You know. When
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Speaker 1: with the City of Omaha, for example, you can't go
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Speaker 1: into a negative with the budget. You have to balance
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Speaker 1: it out by the end of the year. But when
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Speaker 1: I look at what happens nationally and in the spending
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Speaker 1: continues to increase, it is just mind boggling. So absolutely
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Speaker 1: please contact your elected reps presentatives and let them know
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Speaker 1: how you think. Again, that is it for us today.
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Speaker 1: Thank you all for listening to us. We'd love for
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Speaker 1: you to join us again on Monday. We have some
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Speaker 1: good guests lined up for next week. But I am
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Speaker 1: Jean Stothart and this is eleven ten kfab