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Dan Osborn IN-STUDIO · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Jean Stothert, and Peyton Highlock, my producer,
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  Speaker 1: is also here this morning. Good morning, Peyton.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Jean. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: And we are guaranteed human.
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  Speaker 3: Always human here.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. All this talent between me and Peyton, and
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  Speaker 1: we're actually human, right? But thank you all for being
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  Speaker 1: with us today. We want to hear from you. We
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  Speaker 1: want to get your feedback. We want to hear comments, concerns, questions, complaints,
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  Speaker 1: anything goes, city, state, national, the world. And the streetcar, even.
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  Speaker 1: And we have a lot of emails from yesterday's show
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to get to today, too. And we
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  Speaker 1: always will have plenty of great guests, have a great
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  Speaker 1: guest this morning, but you're going to hear plenty of
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  Speaker 1: opinions from me, too. But it is your chance to
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  Speaker 1: if it is not full of obscenities.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Peyton?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's clean. I'll play it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there we go. But we are very happy that
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  Speaker 1: you are with us. And I'm very happy that Dan
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  Speaker 1: Osborne is in the studio this morning. Good morning, Dan.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Mayor.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: We are good. And we were out in the lobby
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  Speaker 1: comparing our hip replacements. Yes, that's exactly right. It's really
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  Speaker 1: hard getting old.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: It is.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Dan, this is the time. What do we have,
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  Speaker 1: 35 days now?
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  Speaker 2: I've lost count.
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  Speaker 1: This is when the rubber really meets the road. And
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  Speaker 1: we were just talking before. I think I've been in
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  Speaker 1: enough elections that you at this point in time, you're
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  Speaker 1: sitting there thinking, did I do enough? Did I not
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  Speaker 1: do enough? Do I need to go somewhere else? Do
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  Speaker 1: I need to talk to somebody else? But before we
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  Speaker 1: dive into a lot of questions that I have today,
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  Speaker 1: you know what? Just tell us a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: Dan Osborne. I mean, we know that you kind of
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  Speaker 1: portray yourself as the union guy. Just tell us a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about you. And you have a family and
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  Speaker 1: a wife?
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  Speaker 4: I do, yeah. I have a wife and three kids.
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  Speaker 4: My mom and dad are still with.
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  Speaker 2: Me here in town.
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  Speaker 1: Are you from Omaha?
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  Speaker 2: Originally, I am from.
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  Speaker 4: Boulder, Colorado. I moved here when I was six years old.
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  Speaker 4: My dad was a railroader.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: U.P.? Yep.
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  Speaker 1: All right. That's where my daughter works, too, for UP. And, okay, Dan,
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  Speaker 1: let's just get into some questions because I have so many.
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  Speaker 1: But first of all, I want to start out with
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  Speaker 1: one question in particular because, you know, Dan, if I
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  Speaker 1: could give you any advice, and I'm sure you don't
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  Speaker 1: want any advice from me.
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  Speaker 2: I take advice from everybody.
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  Speaker 1: But always assume, no matter if you are talking to
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  Speaker 1: two people or 200, you always assume one. somebody is
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  Speaker 1: recording you. They keep on playing on television. A few
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  Speaker 1: times that you were caught on a recording, you didn't
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  Speaker 1: know you were being recorded, but again, you always have
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  Speaker 1: to assume that you are. Usually you have people with
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  Speaker 1: cameras right in your face, and you know it, but
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  Speaker 1: people are always recording you. And I always would tell
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  Speaker 1: my staff, just assume that whatever I say, wherever I
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  Speaker 1: say it, it's going to be on the front page
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  Speaker 1: of the World Herald tomorrow. So one of your comments
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  Speaker 1: you made about Billy Bob and Mary Jo... Um, and,
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  Speaker 1: and talked about their lives probably suck, I think is
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  Speaker 1: what you said. Tell us, tell us about that and,
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  Speaker 1: and tell us how you feel about that now, because
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  Speaker 1: you've kind of come out and said, well, what I
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  Speaker 1: really meant was, but in the long run, it was
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  Speaker 1: insulting to a few people. So just this, you are
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  Speaker 1: on the air right now. You, this is on the record.
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  Speaker 1: I'll let you go ahead and talk.
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  Speaker 2: No, I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 4: And, uh, You know, I'd have to preface it with
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  Speaker 4: the fact that I've done over 300 public events in Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: I go and talk to everybody all the time.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I'm all about, kind of old-fashioned politics, go
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  Speaker 4: out and listen to people.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, should I have said those words? Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 4: You know, and I've apologized for those, and I'm actually
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  Speaker 4: going to Red Cloud on Thursday to address those comments
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  Speaker 4: directly to the good people of Red Cloud. I've been there.
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  Speaker 4: This will be my fourth time there. Like I said,
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  Speaker 4: I get out and talk to folks. And you've been campaigning,
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  Speaker 4: so you understand this too. When you go out, you
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  Speaker 4: hear a lot of people's problems.
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  Speaker 2: They come up to.
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  Speaker 4: You and talk about how policies hurt their families, whether
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  Speaker 4: it's health care, whether it's tariffs, whether it's the war
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  Speaker 4: in Iran and costs. And, you know, people tell me
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  Speaker 4: that their lives are hard, right? And so is mine.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm a paycheck to paycheck guy. I'm a mechanic. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, my family treads water during that time. And
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  Speaker 4: right now people are sinking with costs and now diesel
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  Speaker 4: fuel and fuel. So you add those things on. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, when I was talking about that, it comes
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  Speaker 4: from a place of frustration. It comes from a place
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  Speaker 4: where I'm frustrated. The people I talk to are frustrated.
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  Speaker 4: And I shouldn't have used those words again, but here
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  Speaker 4: we are again going to Red Cloud to address it
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  Speaker 4: directly because that's what politicians should do. That's what regular
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  Speaker 4: people should do. That's what we do in our own lives.
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  Speaker 4: We're accountable for what we say and what we do.
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  Speaker 4: And unfortunately, a lot of politicians do not do that.
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  Speaker 4: They are not accountable for their own words. They just
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  Speaker 4: ignore it or don't apologize for it. And I think
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  Speaker 4: apologizing makes you strong.
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  Speaker 2: Not weak.
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  Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong with saying you're sorry and going
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  Speaker 1: back and saying, you know, I shouldn't have said that.
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  Speaker 1: I was wrong. Let's move on rather than trying to
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  Speaker 1: be defensive about it. There's another you were caught saying
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  Speaker 1: that I can go on and I could be the
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  Speaker 1: voice of LGP and immigration and all of these issues.
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  Speaker 1: And then I lose the election. I think you were
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  Speaker 1: talking to Jane Klebb. So let's just dive into that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about immigration then. Let's talk about ICE and
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  Speaker 1: border enforcement. Talk about it. Do you feel like we
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  Speaker 1: should abolish ICE?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: No, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 4: ICE is their main mission. I'm a military guy. I
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  Speaker 4: was Navy and National Guard. And the mission of ICE
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  Speaker 4: is to keep our streets safe, right? It's to prevent
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  Speaker 4: MS-13 from setting up shop in our neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with that mission. Do I think they could
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  Speaker 2: do better?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Should they practice law enforcement the way our police do
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  Speaker 4: here in this state with body cams and name tags
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  Speaker 4: and badge numbers?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's pretty simple.
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  Speaker 4: They should be held to the same accountability as regular
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  Speaker 4: law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: Do you support the police? The Democrats do have a
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  Speaker 1: platform to disassemble and defund the police. Do you feel
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  Speaker 1: that way?
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  Speaker 2: No, that's really extreme. That's wild. I would never.
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  Speaker 4: No, I've always backed the blue. And anybody who says
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  Speaker 4: otherwise is lying to you.
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  Speaker 1: And then you also said you were heard saying, you
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  Speaker 1: were recorded saying that Trump's border wall is a symbol
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  Speaker 1: of racism. It does nothing. Talk about the border wall.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's the thing. They take things out of context, right?
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  Speaker 4: They take snippets of what I say. We don't have
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  Speaker 4: a border wall with Canada. And look, we could build
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  Speaker 4: a 30-foot wall, and we have in a lot of places.
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  Speaker 4: And I get what it's for. It's for immigration. But
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  Speaker 4: you build a 30-foot wall, they'll sell 31-foot ladders, right?
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  Speaker 4: And one side of the wall says do not enter
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  Speaker 4: closed and the other side says now hiring. But nobody
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  Speaker 4: ever talks about the fact that why we haven't had
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  Speaker 4: immigration reform in this country for decades.
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  Speaker 2: Since I've been alive.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's because corporations like Tyson exploit the labor,
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  Speaker 4: pay them next to nothing, continue to enrich themselves, report
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  Speaker 4: record profits every quarter. And those are the ones that
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  Speaker 4: fund campaigns. So we have to talk about the accountability
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  Speaker 4: from the people doing the hiring side of it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe that we should continue to fund Tyson?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I think right now they're overfunded.
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  Speaker 4: I think our taxpayers' dollars are being wasted because they're
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  Speaker 4: not really– deporting any more people than they have in
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  Speaker 4: the past off of a very, very inflated budget.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Do you believe in sanctuary cities?
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  Speaker 4: Sanctuary cities. To be quite frank, I'm not sure what
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  Speaker 4: that is.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: We'll move on. That's okay. Do you believe, as long
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  Speaker 1: as we're talking about immigration, do you believe that illegal
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  Speaker 1: immigrants should get Social Security cards? No.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. No. Explain that then.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I was talking about immigrants who have come here that
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  Speaker 4: are part of American families, who've started American businesses, that
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  Speaker 4: employ American workers, right, that have been here a long
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  Speaker 4: time that are stuck in a broken system. I think
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  Speaker 4: we've already established everybody knows the system's broken. You come
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  Speaker 4: here legally on a visa. That visa expires. You've been
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  Speaker 4: here six years doing all the right things. Again, whether
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  Speaker 4: you're working construction or you've started a business and a family,
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  Speaker 4: and again, they get stuck in the system. So I
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  Speaker 4: was talking about fixing a broken system that works for
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  Speaker 4: American businesses, small businesses. It doesn't undercut American workers. but
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  Speaker 4: still allows a path for people to come here and
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  Speaker 4: fill 50,000 open jobs that we have in Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: I think you mentioned that you were talking about skilled
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  Speaker 1: workers before. In my opinion, it seems like most skilled
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  Speaker 1: workers are already here legally or have gone through that
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  Speaker 1: legal process. Do you then support a pathway to citizenship?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially for those skilled workers.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, a lot of doctors, a lot of chemists
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  Speaker 4: come here to work, a lot of brilliant minds on
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  Speaker 4: the H-1A visas, and they get stuck in the broken
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  Speaker 4: system too.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously, we need to address it. And how do
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  Speaker 2: you do it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we need a Congress that's going to come together,
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  Speaker 4: that's going to bring in the corporations, small business leaders,
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  Speaker 4: immigrant advocates, everybody who has a role in creating an
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  Speaker 4: immigration program that that, again, works for businesses, workers, and immigrants.
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe illegals should be voting?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. No.
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  Speaker 1: You said no social security cards. Right. And if they
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  Speaker 1: had a social security card, they would be allowed to vote.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't feel like they should vote either. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just firing away here because I know 30 minutes
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  Speaker 1: goes pretty, pretty quick.
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  Speaker 4: And there's a lot of things being said at all
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  Speaker 4: times and social media. We get bombarded with so much information.
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  Speaker 2: It's wild.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you I understand that because, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I've been hit with it many, many times myself. And
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I would wake up in the morning and turn
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  Speaker 1: on the TV and hear a commercial against myself and think,
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  Speaker 1: what in the world are these people saying? They would
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  Speaker 1: just make things up. So I understand. It's very, very hard.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm giving you the opportunity now to clear it up,
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  Speaker 1: clear the air if you want. You're on the record now, Dan. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: on the record.
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  Speaker 2: Write it down. Hold me accountable.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll put our podcast of this show up at
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  Speaker 1: about noon today. caucusing you've been asked that so many
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  Speaker 1: times because the way federal government works is to i
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  Speaker 1: mean there there's democrats and republicans um talk about that
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  Speaker 1: you said people have asked you will you be caucusing
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  Speaker 1: with the democrats now i will say this dan of
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  Speaker 1: what i have seen most of your positions your platform
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  Speaker 1: positions are in alignment with the democrat party much more
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  Speaker 1: so than the republican party would you say that's.
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  Speaker 2: Accurate I mean, there's a lot of issues out there, Mayor.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean, to pin me to a couple big ones,
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  Speaker 4: I got to talk about why I'm independent.
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  Speaker 2: So folks understand that.
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  Speaker 4: I've never bought into the fact that I've had to
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  Speaker 4: accept a set of principles, policy, values, and reject the
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  Speaker 4: other side to be a part of a party. We
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  Speaker 4: got two choices. I'm always preaching anti-monopoly, anti-trust. And our
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  Speaker 4: parties are a duopoly, right? And George Washington, the very
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  Speaker 4: first independent of the country, warned us of the two
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  Speaker 4: factions and where it could lead. James Madison, Federalist Papers No. 10,
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  Speaker 4: did the same thing, and here we are. Neither party
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  Speaker 4: wants either party to have another win. So who am
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  Speaker 4: I going to caucus with? I want to caucus with everybody.
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  Speaker 4: because nobody's got a monopoly on a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: But how, I guess, how do you get things done
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  Speaker 1: in D.C.? Because it's divided between Democrats and Republicans. And
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  Speaker 1: if you don't caucus with either one, how do you
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  Speaker 1: think you're going to get things done? And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, George Washington, yes, he did say that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and he said a lot about not being in either
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  Speaker 1: party and really downplaying the importance of parties. But that
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  Speaker 1: was in 1789, too. So we're talking 200 and Almost
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  Speaker 1: 240 years ago, he said that. Ever since then, there
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  Speaker 1: has been a Democrat or a Republican. So how do
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  Speaker 1: you– but how do you– if you're in there in Congress,
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  Speaker 1: how do you get things done if you don't side
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  Speaker 1: with one party or another? I mean I'm just really
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  Speaker 1: interested in that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very interested in it too.
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  Speaker 4: And I think the system needs to be challenged because
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  Speaker 4: the two-party system, Democrats have been in complete control. The Congress,
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  Speaker 4: the executive, judicial, and my health care still sucks. Now
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  Speaker 4: Republicans are in control, and I can barely afford to
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  Speaker 4: put fuel in my car. So either side has had chances,
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  Speaker 4: and I think they fail us every single time. So
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  Speaker 4: we're 250 years into this great American experiment. I think
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  Speaker 4: we need to experiment further. But the committee assignments, you're guaranteed,
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  Speaker 4: I believe, three major committees as a senator regardless of
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  Speaker 4: your party position. And then it's just going to be
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  Speaker 4: forming relationships. It's going to be going and knocking on
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  Speaker 4: whoever the majority, the minority door and saying, hey, you're
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  Speaker 4: going to need my vote, right? Because I think the
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  Speaker 4: Senate's going to be a pretty thin majority either way.
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  Speaker 4: And you only need to, since we're delving in hypotheticals,
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  Speaker 4: you only need to look at the big, beautiful bill act.
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  Speaker 4: I would have been the tiebreaker because J.D. Vance came
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  Speaker 4: down and broke the tie. I would have been the
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  Speaker 4: tiebreaker if I would have beat Senator Fischer in 24.
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  Speaker 4: So that's That's leverage. And that's leverage for Nebraska. That's
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  Speaker 4: how you deliver for Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. The Nebraska Democrat Party, though, did endorse you, correct?
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  Speaker 2: They did. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: They did endorse you. And then are you getting money
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  Speaker 1: from Democrats? Because I wanted to get into campaign financing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it does seem like that you have been receiving money.
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  Speaker 1: There's some super PACs out there that they could get
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  Speaker 1: unlimited money. Do you know? Are you getting any foreign money?
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  Speaker 2: Foreign money?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So every time I do a town hall, and I've
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  Speaker 4: done so many of them, I always ask people to
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  Speaker 4: raise their hand if they understand campaign finance. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think I've ever had anybody raise their hand. There's two
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  Speaker 4: sides to campaign finance, which I didn't know this until
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  Speaker 4: I started running.
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  Speaker 1: And federal campaign finance is a lot different than what
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  Speaker 1: I dealt with with Nebraska campaign finance. So if you're
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  Speaker 1: running for U.S. Senate or running for U.S. Congress, those
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  Speaker 1: campaign finance laws federally are pretty much the same. And
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  Speaker 1: they really restrict you. I think it's– you could get $ 3, 500
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  Speaker 1: per person per election cycle and $ 5, 000 from PACs from
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  Speaker 1: election cycle. But then there's these super PACs, and you
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  Speaker 1: really don't know who's giving money to these super PACs.
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  Speaker 4: And then you have the dark money, the independent expenditures
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  Speaker 4: that legally the campaign cannot coordinate with or you could
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  Speaker 4: go to jail.
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  Speaker 2: And that's all that.
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  Speaker 4: That's where the billionaire class plays and the corporations play.
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  Speaker 2: And that's Citizens United. And that's what I'm always preaching.
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  Speaker 4: That's one of the reasons I got into this was
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  Speaker 4: because there's politicians that take money from corporations and then
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  Speaker 4: end up doing their bidding.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't want to be involved in that.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about taking money from out-of-state donors, though?
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, this is a, I mean, it's a federal race, right?
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  Speaker 4: You're going to take votes on war powers, right? This
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  Speaker 4: affects everybody. And I've received the vast majority of.
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  Speaker 2: My money comes from small dollars.
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  Speaker 4: I've received small dollar donations from over 100,000 people from
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: all 50 states and all 93 counties. So my campaign
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: is powered by the people. And the average donation is $ 40.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: So that's important to me. I like that about my campaign. But,
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: you know, we're never going to out-raise Pete Ricketts.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: And, you know, let me ask you about that, though,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: because the one thing I don't understand, and a lot
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: of your proponents, they criticize Pete Ricketts for having a
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: lot of money. But, you know, number one, his dad
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: started out pretty lean. He had the vision and the
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: foresight to create this online trading company, and he became very,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: very wealthy. You can't pick your parents. And isn't that
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: the American dream? It seems like people are criticizing him
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: because his father was successful. I mean, isn't that what
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: we all strive for?
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: It's an amazing story. It is.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: That's the American dream, and I believe that there should
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: be a solid foundation, but there should be no ceilings
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: for what Americans can accomplish. And the Joe Ricketts story
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: is a great success story.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: And hired many, many people.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Right.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: The problem I have is when you start to spend
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: your fortune in politics. Again, going back to those unlimited
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: donations and the dark money and super PACs. And, you know,
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: George Norris was the last independent from Nebraska that created
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: our nonpartisan, I'm doing air quotes, unicameral. And, you know,
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Pete Ricketts has spent a fortune there. like over $ 20
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: million making sure our unicameral is partisan. Because when he
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: was governor, he wanted complete loyalty from the Senate. And
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: that's where I have a problem spending the money. I
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: don't have a problem making the money. Again, no ceilings.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: But ultimately, it's how you spend the money.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: And, you know, many people have asked me, even when
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I was running, you know, how does Joe average person
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: compete in a race if– other candidates or your opponents
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: have a lot of money and are spending a lot
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: of money getting their message out on TV and radio
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: and you don't have that much money. How could that
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: be fair? Do you think there should be really some
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: more restrictions as far as the, the federal campaign finance laws? Yes.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: There should be, especially, you know, that's where, that's where
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: I'm changing the game, right? I want everybody in this
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: country to know I'm a knuckle dragger. I turn wrenches
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: for a living, right? Uh, I want nurses and teachers
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: and plumbers and carpenters and people like that, farmers, ranchers,
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: to know that they can step up and run for
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: higher office too. And it's possible, even against all odds,
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: even against the money. And, you know, that's what my
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: campaign represents. And especially if we get a W in November,
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: it's going to change the game in American politics.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Were you a mechanic or an electrician?
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Mechanic.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: You were a mechanic. And, you know, I was a
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: registered nurse.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: People don't realize that, but that's what I did. And
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved everything I did.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Boys and girls sports. The Fairness for Girls Act. Have
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: you signed it? Are you going to sign it? Tell
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: us how you feel about boys and in girls sports.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: We should listen to our girls.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Allowing biological males to be in girls sports. Tell us
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: what you think. No.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: I think ultimately we should listen to our girls. And
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: if our girls are feeling unsafe on the playing field
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: and in locker rooms, we should listen to them.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Okay. Okay. Boy, I've got a lot more questions and
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: we've got a little time, but we're going to keep going.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about DSA, the Democrat Socialist of America and
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: their platform. Just I'm not going to say another word.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Tell us what your thoughts are on some of these candidates.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Too extreme. Way too extreme.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: And this is a result, I think, of a nation
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: being unhappy with the current administration. We've seen it. You know,
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: we've seen this pendulum swing back and forth. So many times.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: And the problem with that pendulum is it swings to
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: the extremes every single time because people are so unhappy
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: and frustrated with whatever administration is at the time. And
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: so a lot of times in the midterms, you'll have
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: this pendulum and it'll just swing. The pendulum needs to
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: stop in the middle. Because that's where, in my experience,
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: most people's politics land somewhere in the 40-yard lines, not
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: the end zones.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I always used to say that there's usually 10% on
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the right, 10% on the far left, 10% on the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: far right. Everybody else is somewhere in the middle.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: But those that are on the edge, those are the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: ones that come after you if you don't follow every
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: single line. thing they tell you to follow.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: And they make a lot of noise.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: And they make a lot of noise. And I will
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: say with this DSA, the Democrat Socialists, the things that
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: really bother me about this is there are really some
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: good Democrat elected incumbents in this country that are doing
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a fairly good or a good job are getting beat.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: by these socialists or communists. I mean, I go back
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: to that, the woman in New York, Chevalier, I think
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: her name was, that has the white glasses, and she
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: made the comment when she was leaving a restaurant, she
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: couldn't find a napkin to wipe her dirty hands, so
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: she wiped them on the American flag.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, boy.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: And when I think when people are talking like that
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and are winning elections, she won. This is scary.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: That is.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: This is a scary time for us. So, I mean, Dan,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: do you— Do you feel like you're a patriot?
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: I mean, I served my country. I served in the Navy.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: I've served in the, I've served this state and then
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Nebraska army national guard.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I do it all over again.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: After nine 11, I volunteered to go to Fort Knox
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: and battle ready tanks for a year, uh, to try
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: to play my part. Uh, I would absolutely sign on
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: the dotted line to, to go and give the ultimate
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: sacrifice for this country. And, uh, I've proven that over
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: and over again. And, uh, Yeah, to hear stories like
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: that is definitely cringey.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is cringeworthy. Let's go back and talk a
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: little bit about your history. And I want to bring
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: up Kellogg. What was your role? Everybody talks about the
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Kellogg strike, that you were a leader. Were you in charge?
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Were you leading the negotiations? Talk about what your role
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: was there with Kellogg. And I will just tell you this.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: When I first became mayor, I had a real good
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: relationship with Kellogg. I knew the administration. That's when we
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: were dealing with the extra charges for the sewer separation project.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: And because they're a big water user. They were going
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: to get hosed as well as like the meat packers
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: and Skinner baking. And I worked with them a lot
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: and they were great to work with. And then it
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: seemed like the administration changed. But do you know how
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I as mayor found out that they were leaving? They
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: called my hotline. They didn't even call me.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: They called the hotline. They were going to Des Moines
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: or something, weren't they?
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: They just said, let the mayor know that we're shutting
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: down in Omaha. Oh, well, thanks, through the hotline message.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: That's what they said. And they were going to consolidate,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: and they were going to put most of their efforts
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: in consolidating and expanding in Battle Creek online. which is
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: where their headquarters were. But that's how they let me know.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: So tell us what your role was as far as Kellogg.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: They failed to mention that they have two plants down
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: in Mexico, two state-of-the-art plants that they have built. And
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: they would send those employees up to Omaha and they
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: would learn how to make cereal and then send them back.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: And then so that's, I think, where a lot of
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: those jobs in Omaha went was down into Mexico. So
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Pay attention where your food comes from when you're at
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: the grocery store.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: And, you know, they're not making as much cereal as
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: they used to.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Well, people aren't eating it.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: They've gone to protein drinks and all that kind of stuff.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I toured Kellogg one time, and it was like an
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: operating room in there. It was so clean and sterile
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: looking in there. We always took pride in keeping it clean.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: What was your role?
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, my role was a mechanic. I was a mechanic
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: for over 19 years. I worked seven days a week,
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: 12 hours a day, a lot of 16s on Sundays,
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: my whole career. But in the union world, you know,
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: a lot of the old guys started to retire. We
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: started to lose on contracts. So I got elected as
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: vice president. Three months later, the president stepped down. You
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: get yelled at a lot in that role by members
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: and management. But I knew it was important, so I
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: assumed it. And then COVID hit. I was president during
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: COVID of local 50G. And, you know, during that time,
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: we were working like crazy. Half of our workforce was
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: forced quarantined. We were essential workers, but we kept four
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: plants running, full capacity. And then our contract expired after
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Kellogg's had made record profits that year. And they said,
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: we're taking your health insurance, cost of living adjustment, and
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: they're putting in this permanent two-tier wage system.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Was this new management that said that to you?
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Yes, it was because Kellogg's had sold, spun off their
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: North American cereal division, and it was like Calanova.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Or something was the company now. And so for me
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: as president, that was an oh, crap moment.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: But here's the thing. This was my role on the strike.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: It was keeping the picket line together, and it was
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: talking to the media. So that's where a lot of
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: people are like, oh, Dan Osborne, blah, blah, blah.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I'm like, no.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: I talked to the media, and I raised money to
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: make sure our members were eating. I started a food pantry.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: but as far as negotiations, I had nothing to do
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: with negotiations.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: So you were not at the negotiating table?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: No.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Because I've been involved in labor negotiations a whole lot,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: and it can be difficult because you're there to represent
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: your members and me. I was there to represent the taxpayers,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: but those were also my employees, and I wanted them
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: to have good benefits and good salaries. So It's a
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: difficult thing to do.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: The International Union had complete control of those negotiations.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Do you think the result of those negotiations had anything
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: to do with Kellogg's decision to leave Omaha?
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: No, no way.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, we, you know, workers in unions are dumb.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: We know we can't price ourselves out of a market.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: That would just be, that's crazy. So we were just
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: trying to hold on to what we had.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: And that's what we did, you know, with that contract.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: But the people who show up and clock in every day,
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: they don't shut down factories. The CEOs who are trying
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: to appease stockholders, that's who shut down factories.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: That contract was finally settled, correct?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was settled. And by the way, a
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: contract is a contract, right? The company signs it and
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: the union signs it.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: And you're contractually legally obligated to follow a labor contract.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think without that. last labor contract, the
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: plant would have been closed way earlier. They wanted to
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: close that plant forever, since you were mayor, and now
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: they did.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: And I got my face on the box of red
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: berries before they closed down.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: All right. You still got it?
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: They brought it in, and I said, how many of
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: those are there? I was thrilled, and they go, one.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: So it was just mine. Hillary Clinton was announced that
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: she's going to be in Omaha on October 10th. Are
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: you going to go to that?
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: I'm going to make sure I'm on the other side
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: of Nebraska for that one.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Okay. I think it was called Pumpkin and Politics and
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: something weird like that, but you're not going to be
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: attending that event.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: And let's talk about some of your endorsements. Are you
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: being endorsed by labor unions?
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Okay. Have you been endorsed by Local 385 or Fire Union?
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Has that been announced? Do you want to announce it
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: right now? Yeah.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: And I'm so honored to have the firefighters endorsement. I
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: wish I could have got the police. They went for rickets.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: I was this close to becoming a policeman. I just
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: had to do the lie detector test and interview with
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: the chief, and that's when I decided to go work
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: for Kellogg's instead. So forks in the road, right? But, yeah,
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: I'm honored to have the firefighters endorsement. That means a
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: lot to me.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Any other endorsements you want to talk about?
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: You know, I've been endorsed by the high-level military group,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: the leaders– Help me out.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: It's LP4A.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a group of generals and admirals, and they're
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: going to be coming to Omaha. General Dan Woodward is
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: going to be coming to Omaha to campaign, probably go
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: through Bellevue, and then hopefully make some stops throughout Nebraska.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, NSL 4A. Okay, okay.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: And one last question, because we're running out of time here,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: but you have been accused of enriching your own family.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: FEC complaints for payments to yourself, your wife, your daughter, siblings. Explain.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's laughable.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Okay, so I started an organization after the 2024 election because, yes,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: we lost, but we realized there's an appetite for this
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: brand of politics, and that's elevating... regular everyday workers to
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: run for office. So we knew we could recruit folks.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: I was recruited by railroaders out in central Nebraska. And
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: so we started a recruiting firm. And my wife worked
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: for that. She ran the Nebraska part of that. And
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: so the LLC had a total payroll of, I think, $ 500, 000.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: And we recruited a firefighter in Wisconsin. Six, we recruited
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: a firefighter in Washington. Five, Bill Hill up in Alaska,
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: who's a fisherman. as well as some down-ballot races. So
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: we had recruiters all around the country trying to recruit
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: working-class people. Again, this was the entire payroll. You can't
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: see how it was divvied out, so they just automatically look, oh, yeah,
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: we're just going to say he took all the money.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Completely not true. My wife got paid a fair market
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: value for what she did. She didn't get paid any
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: more or any less than anybody else on the team
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: of recruiters.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: And also, one last thing. Cindy Burbank was the Democrat candidate.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: nomination for this position, and then she dropped out. Did
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: you and her have conversations? Did you know that she
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: was going to drop out?
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: No.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Was that a plan with the Democrat Party?
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: No. I don't coordinate with folks.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: I'm an independent grassroots campaign, and I think Cindy dropping out,
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: it's what most people should do if they have the
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: same goal, which is to get Pete Ricketts out of
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Nebraska politics. That's the shared goal we have in common.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: She saw that I had a better chance to do that,
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: and she dropped out. And that's, I think, the way
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: a lot of politics should be around in other states too.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Did you have conversations with her?
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: No.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Okay. So mostly that was her with the Democrat Party.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: I ran into her at an event. I shook her hand,
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: and that was as far as it went. But I
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: do that with Senator Fischer and Ricketts. If I see somebody,
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: I shake their hand and say hi.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: One last question. I got to get it in, Peyton.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Universal health care, are you for it or against it?
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: No, I'm against it.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Medicare for all.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: I'm for breaking up the health insurance companies that have
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: vertically integrated the entire health care system, profiting off of
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: denying claims.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm for.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: You're all on record here, Dan. This is it. The
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Gene Stothert comment line. I want to thank you, really,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: for coming in here today. I really do. I wanted
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: to give you the opportunity to answer questions. Like I said,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: you're on the record here. This is the time that
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: when it's so close to the election, you want to
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: get everything out that you possibly can. And it's hard
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: to do it on a TV commercial or on one
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: little blip that you might hear on the radio. So
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I really appreciate you being on. Is there any last
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: words you have?
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: No.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, we got 35 days. And my message to
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: everybody is just go vote. Go and do.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: That right that people have died to give us.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: That's keeping this country free, keeping our elections free and fair.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: Go and exercise your right, whether you're voting for me
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: or Ricketts. Vote.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Just go and vote.
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  Speaker 1: That's what– I keep on saying that ever since the
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  Speaker 1: primary with 26 percent voter turnout in a primary. Do
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: you know the general election, the last one that I lost?
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: It was 27 percent voter turnout in a general election.
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  Speaker 1: I mean people have no right to complain if they
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  Speaker 1: don't get out there. And when you talk about people's
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  Speaker 1: voice needs to be heard, people's voices aren't heard. when
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  Speaker 1: you have a 27% voter turnout. So Dan Osborne has
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  Speaker 1: been with us today, independent for U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Dan, for being with us today.
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Dan Osborne, real quick before we go, you came out
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  Speaker 3: with a song of your own, and I'm not able
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  Speaker 3: to play the full song just in full transparency. About
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: three and a half minutes long, I'm not able to
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  Speaker 3: play the full song. I'll play the first chorus here
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  Speaker 3: as you get into the name of the counties and
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: stuff like that. Any quick comments about it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no AI, just me singing with a real band
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  Speaker 2: in studio.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing.
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  Speaker 3: I'll play this 30 seconds here. We'll take the break.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: This is Gene Stothert in the KFAB comment line here
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  Speaker 3: on NewsRadio 1110 KFAB.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Dan Osborne, thank you for being in the studio.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, I've traveled every road in this here land.
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  Speaker 2: I've been everywhere, man.
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  Speaker 1: I've been everywhere, man.
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  Speaker 2: Crossed the sand hills there, man. Breathed the prairie air, man.
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  Speaker 2: I've traveled live head by share, man.
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  Speaker 1: I've been everywhere, man. I've been everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Across the sand hills bare, man.
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  Speaker 4: I breathe the prairie air, man.
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  Speaker 2: I travel up and I share.
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  Speaker 3: We had a long segment with Dan Osborne there, so
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: we have a short segment here, Gene. What's on your mind?
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: What's on my mind? I thought you had somebody on
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: the line here. Okay. You know what, folks? I really
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: wanted to give Dan Osborne the opportunity to be on
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  Speaker 1: the record, on the air, and to answer the questions
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: that seem like are the main questions that keep on
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  Speaker 1: coming up in this campaign. From ICE and border enforcement
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  Speaker 1: to illegal immigrants voting to universal health care to boys
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: and girls sports to caucusing with the Democrats to the
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  Speaker 1: DSA to Kellogg's. riching his family. All of these things
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  Speaker 1: were things that people keep on asking and bringing up
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  Speaker 1: with him, and I wanted to give him a chance
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  Speaker 1: to answer it. It did concern me that when I
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: asked him about sanctuary cities, he said he really wasn't
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  Speaker 1: aware of what a sanctuary city was, but okay, that
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: didn't come up in this campaign yet. But I wanted
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: to give him the opportunity to speak, and so he did.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure we will have Senator Ricketts on. In fact,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Jessica Flanagan is going to be back on the show
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: this Friday to talk about the Ricketts campaign, to be
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: fair to everybody. So I'm anxious to hear your comments
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  Speaker 1: on it. I really am. And the things that he said.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: And now he's on the record saying them. So that's
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: why I had him on here and wanted to ask
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: him those questions. Now, polling. Front page of the World
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Herald today. Polling shows tight race in the campaign for governor.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I want to tell you all about polling.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Polling is one snapshot in time. One snapshot in time. And,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: you know, when I just got to bring up the
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: last time I ran, I remember when Mike McDonald came
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  Speaker 1: out with a poll that says he's in the lead,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: he's going to win the race, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: that could have been a poll that was taken at
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: the Firefighter Union Hall, for all I know, because my polling,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: which I never let out in public ever, I used
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: it only for my own benefit to see where I
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: needed to work harder. are where I was doing well.
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  Speaker 1: I always kept them very internal, and it never showed
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald above a distant third place. So keep that
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: in mind. Keep that in mind when you read these
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  Speaker 1: polls for God knows who's doing the poll. The one
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: that is in the World Herald today was from a
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Democrat-leaning firm. that did the poll and said that Governor
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Pillen and Lynn Walz are neck and neck. So you
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: cannot believe what these polls say. And remember, Kamala Harris
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: was showed with a strong lead in the last presidential race.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: So keep this all in mind.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: This is the Gene Stothert KFAB comment line here on
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: News Radio 1110 KFAB. Phone lines are open 402-558-1110. Send
• 36:23
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• 36:25
  Speaker 2: And if you.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Missed parts of the Dan Osborne interview. You can find
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: that on the KFAB podcast page, kfab.com, or the free
• 36:38
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• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Gene Stothert and the KFAB comment line. My name is
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Peyton Highlock here. On a Tuesday, we had Dan Osborne
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: in studio earlier today. I'm getting lots of questions and
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: comments over here, Gene.
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  Speaker 2: Good, good.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we want. I want to hear what you
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: have to say about that interview because I think it's
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: rare that you get a candidate that you could just
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: ask them questions. Usually if they're speaking, it's limited to
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: what they're saying. But what are some of the questions?
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I want to get to the phone lines, but I'm curious.
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  Speaker 1: This is a good email right here from Carrie. Comment
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: at kfab.com.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Carrie says– Look at what he says when he doesn't
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: think a microphone is on. And how can you possibly
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: be running for Senate and not know what a sanctuary
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  Speaker 3: city is?
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  Speaker 1: I agree. I think– I mean he should have known
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  Speaker 1: what a sanctuary city is. But I will say this
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: is if you are not– too familiar with running in
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: a political race. Now, this is his second race. But
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: as I said on the air to him, if you
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: want my advice, I'll give it to you anyway, even
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: though you don't. But you always, always assume that you
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: are being recorded. You always assume that if you're talking
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: to two people or 2000 people, that you're being recorded
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: and anything you say is going to be on the
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  Speaker 1: front page of the newspaper. You just keep that in
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: your mind all the time. So I think some of
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: these slips, and he has had more than one. I mean,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: there was the recording of him talking about the people
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  Speaker 1: in western Nebraska. There was the recording with Jane Klebb. And,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you have a loose tongue there, and
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: you've got to watch it because that really shows people
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  Speaker 1: what you're really saying behind closed doors, and that is
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: a concern to people.
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  Speaker 3: Let's head to the phone lines. Patrick, you are live
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  Speaker 3: with Gene Stothert here on KFAB.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Patrick.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Mayor.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning. How are you doing today, Mayor?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good, thank you.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: So I found your conversation with Dan Osborne to be
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: pretty interesting, but I was a little concerned because he
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: mentioned right off the bat that he didn't want to
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: defund the police or ICE. The problem with his statement
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: after that was the fact that Now, obviously, he doesn't
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: want to abolish those two, but he said that ICE
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: was overfunded. So if they're overfunded, does that mean he's
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: going to defund to bring them to a level that
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: he thinks is appropriate?
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up because that's exactly what
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: both Peyton and I were saying to each other. If
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  Speaker 1: you say you're not going to defund them, but you
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: think they're overfunded, that means you're going to defund them.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: And so I didn't understand what he said or what
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: he meant when he said that. I don't know how
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: they are overreacting. I mean, is he saying that there's
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: too many ICE agents? I don't know. I have no
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: idea what he meant by that. But to me, that
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: meant that he would defund ICE if they are overfunded.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: But he was very, very definite about not doing that
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  Speaker 1: to disassemble ICE. and to defund the police, which is
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: on many Democrats' platform. So he made that pretty clear.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: And again, I hope he was telling us the truth,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it's right before the election. He was
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: on record. Whatever he said, people are going to hold
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: him to that, and there's no doubt to that.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Patrick.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate it, Mary.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you bet.
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  Speaker 3: The next phone call we go. Mark, thank you for
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: holding on for me. You are live with Gene Stothert
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  Speaker 3: here on KFAB.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Mayor.
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: How are you?
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I am very good.
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: I have to call BS on Dan Osborne. Twice he
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: talked about how he was struggling to make ends meet,
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: living paycheck to paycheck, and having trouble putting gas in
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  Speaker 6: his vehicle. I looked it up, and his net worth
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: is over $ 700, 000.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: So I have, you know, this whole, oh, I'm, you know,
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: just a normal guy and I have trouble with, you know,
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: making ends meet. It's just like, come on, dude, seriously?
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: You know, it's just that simple. People can look it
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  Speaker 6: up and see, you know, once again, you're lying.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: But how do you figure out your net worth? Do
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: you know? I mean, I know they look at any
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: property you own. They look at your car. They look
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: at your house. They look at a lot of different
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: things when they figure out your net worth and it
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: changes a lot. God, I'd hate to look at what
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: my net worth is. That might be pretty shocking.
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  Speaker 6: I would be depressed if I looked at mine, I'm sure. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I looked at that, and I'm like, well,
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: he's sitting there talking about how he's struggling. And I'm like,
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: you know, like I said, they're having trouble making ends
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: meet and this and that. I'm like, yeah, I got
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: a problem with that. Like I said, I don't have
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: a property or this or that, but I have a
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: real hard time believing that.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I appreciate your comment. I really do.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Mark, for calling in.
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: You bet. Have a great day.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: I guess, an idea, but I don't ever take an
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: online Google search of somebody's net worth serious at all.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I don't either. Because like I said, it includes any
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: of your assets. So it includes your home, your car.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, it includes so much. And it's like, how
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: do they know all this stuff? And it changes all
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: the time. I mean, you get what Warren Buffett's net
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: worth is at $ 144 billion. That came out the other day.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: But it's like, how did they figure out all this?
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Is it tied up in stocks and bonds and Your
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: everyday cash that you have to live on is a
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: lot less.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, I really don't know that. And if anybody knows,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: tell me because I'm not sure about that. But if
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: we have a lot of comments about that, again, tomorrow
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: I think would be a good time that we could
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: go through a lot more of these comments and we
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: could address them, especially those that we had the other day.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: when we were also, yesterday, when we were talking about valuations,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: and we were talking about Kathleen Kauf being on the air,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: and we had a lot of other things that we
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: were discussing. So we've got a lot more to discuss tomorrow.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: But thank you for spending this hour with us today.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe give you some time to think about, if you
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: were listening, the Dan Osborne interview, and give us your
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: thoughts on what he said, and about this race and
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: other races too. But We're glad that you are with
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: us today. We'd love for you to join us again tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jean Stothert, and this is 1110 KFAB.